When this phrase “a woman’s film” comes to mind, I usually think of the titles The Hour or Sylvia Plaith’s The Bell Jar; serious and intellectual movies that scream “feminist” and are loved and sought after by feminists. But the optimist feminist themes I found in the more mainstream silverware are found in the diet, […]
Tag Archives: The Bell Jar
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Jul
Jul
I struggled to figure out what I was good at. This whole “area of expertise” thing had me thrown for a loop. It was actually very depressing, because I came to the sad conclusion that I really wasn’t good at anything. So I did what any upstanding 25 year-old in a jam would do: I […]
Sylvia Plath may be one of the most influential modern poets. Born in a middle class family in Boston in 1932, her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Otto met Aurelia while teaching at Boston University and had an affair with her while still married to but separated from his previous wife. Sylvia was the […]
Man. So the most famous poet today is the late Ted Hughes. Not as the former poet-laureate or as the author of those collections of opinions “Lupercal” or “Crow”; but as the husband of Sylvia Plath, whose infidelity helped to wake her up to mourning and death, as the man who presides over the estate […]
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Mar
Mar
Seeing how most of what we flop down and flip through on television is pure candy for the mind, I started thinking hard about my favorite brain taffy, Grey’s Anatomy. If I’m so attached to this hour long show, what could I possibly be getting out of it besides pure entertainment? It wasn’t until after […]