The Plath celebration : a partial dissent / Irving Howe -- Aspects of energy in the poetry of Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath / D.F. McKay -- Attitudes counterfeiting life : the irony of artifice in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Stan Smith -- "A fine white flying myth" : confessions of a Plath addict / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Sincerity kills / Hugh Kenner -- Short circuits and folding mirrors / J.D. McClatchy -- The bee sequence : "but I have a self to recover" / Mary Lynn
Broe -- Sylvia Plath and her journals / Ted Hughes -- Women in The bell jar : two allegories / Lynda K. Bundtzen -- Fueling the Phoenix fire : the manuscripts of Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" / Susan Van Dyne -- Apprenticed in a Bible of dreams : Sylvia Plath's short stories / Melody Zajdel.