"Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams": landscape and symbolism in the short stories of Sylvia Plath

• Autores: Ana María Martín Castillejos
• Localización: The Short Story in English [Recurso electrónico]: crossing boundaries / Gema Soledad Castillo García (ed. lit.), María Rosa Cabellos Castilla (ed. lit.), Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (ed. lit.), Vincent Carlisle Espínola (ed. lit.), 2006, ISBN 8481387096, págs. 613-624
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article focuses on Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, the only published compilation of short stories by Sylvia Plath. The pieces, written at different points in her life, portray Plath’s tendency to eliminate details from her descriptions of scenery in which action occurs. Besides this progressive elimination of details, Plath’s short stories also depict an increasing tendency to attribute human qualities to such sceneries that reflect the main characters’ mood, and mental and physical state. In such a way, the writer’s short stories share the characteristics of Plath’s latest poetry, i. e., the progressive merging of physical and mental landscapes in her writing.