Plath Profiles volume 9

POETRY 03  In the Slivered Hospital Jennifer MacBain-Stephens 04  Self-Portrait as Hydrangea Shevaun Brannigan 05  The Beeswax Candle Janna Erickson 06  Sumption: Sivvy’s Food Crystal Hope Hurdle 08  Blue Water Natalie Crick 09  Night Natalie Crick ARTICLES 18  Esther’s Uncanny Doubles: The “big, smudgy-eyed Chinese woman” and the  “bleached-blonde Negress” in The Bell Jar Hiromi Yoshida  23  “Paula’s snowsuit was smeared wet and black with oil”: Sylvia Plath on Children’s Capacity for  Love and War’s Influence of Hate Julie Ooms 31  Mud Plus Struck Equals Muck: Filth andViolence in the Works of Sylvia Plath Julia McCord Chavez, Robert C. Hauhart 34  Shrunken Heads: Reading Plath Reading Eliot Sara Fetherolf 40  ‘Unintelligible syllables’: Noise in the poetry of Sylvia Plath  Christine Walde STUDENT WORK 68  “Every Woman’s a Whore”: Misogyny and Hypocrisy in Sylvia Plath’s Oeuvre Mercy D. Sherman 68  A World Without Men: Matriarchal Landscapes in Sylvia Plath’s “Stings,” “Wintering,” “Purdah,” and “Letter in November”  Constance Chan 68  Identity in The Bell Jar and The Perks of Being aWallflower: A Comparison Taylor McGonigle 68  The significance of metaphor in ‘Daddy’ Elise Stanford 68  Exploring identity in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye Jess Ardley ART 55  Poems, Suitcases Kristina Zimbakova