Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico

This article aims to analyze the images of the sea and the aquatic element in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar – with further references to the later poetry and prose production – focusing on the lexical occurrences of certain words such as sea, ocean and water. All this leads to the possibility of...

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Main Author: Diego Salvadori
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2017-12-01
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/7770
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description This article aims to analyze the images of the sea and the aquatic element in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar – with further references to the later poetry and prose production – focusing on the lexical occurrences of certain words such as sea, ocean and water. All this leads to the possibility of reading the text by ‘aquatic textual plans’, on the basis of the inner lexical matches, and making a distinction between “sea of the body” and “sea of the mind”.
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spelling doaj.art-7dce2c69cbfb4373aa5ddebc8439723f2022-12-22T00:22:55ZengFirenze University PressLea1824-484X2017-12-01610.13128/LEA-1824-484x-2234718534Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquaticoDiego SalvadoriThis article aims to analyze the images of the sea and the aquatic element in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar – with further references to the later poetry and prose production – focusing on the lexical occurrences of certain words such as sea, ocean and water. All this leads to the possibility of reading the text by ‘aquatic textual plans’, on the basis of the inner lexical matches, and making a distinction between “sea of the body” and “sea of the mind”.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/7770ecocriticismlandscapeSylvia Plath<em>The Bell Jar</em>
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Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
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ecocriticism
landscape
Sylvia Plath
<em>The Bell Jar</em>
title Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
title_full Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
title_fullStr Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
title_full_unstemmed Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
title_short Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico
title_sort mare del corpo mare della mente sylvia plath e lo spazio acquatico
topic ecocriticism
landscape
Sylvia Plath
<em>The Bell Jar</em>
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