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Author: Dedria Bryfonski Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC ISBN: 0737758198 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening refused to shy away from its progressive depictions of femininity and womanhood, defying and challenging the status quo. This informative edition explores the theme of women's issues as they relate to The Awakening, investigating topics such as independence, inequality, and identity. Readers are provided with an extensive bibliography of author Kate Chopin, a series of essays the expand upon themes of gender found within the text, and a selection of modern thought on gender and gender roles.
Author: Dedria Bryfonski Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC ISBN: 0737758198 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 199
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Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening refused to shy away from its progressive depictions of femininity and womanhood, defying and challenging the status quo. This informative edition explores the theme of women's issues as they relate to The Awakening, investigating topics such as independence, inequality, and identity. Readers are provided with an extensive bibliography of author Kate Chopin, a series of essays the expand upon themes of gender found within the text, and a selection of modern thought on gender and gender roles.
Author: Kate Chopin Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 1681959399 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a masterpiece of early feminist fiction telling the story of a woman who finally decides to decide her own fate.
Author: Kate Chopin Publisher: Melville House ISBN: 1612192548 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before. Condemned as "sordid" and "immoral" on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "prophetic psychology" ensures its timeliness today. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Author: Michaela Abele Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638221741 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 12
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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3 (B), University of Stuttgart (Anglistics/American Studies), 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Looking at the situation of women some centuries ago, one can hardly deny that women had permanently been discriminated: Neither were they allowed to take part in political life, nor did they get a proper education or were granted any kind of selfhood. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, wives were still regarded as “the objects of others rather than as the free subjects of their own fates” (Fox-Genovese 35). Looking at the situation of women nowadays, things obviously have improved: At least in industrialised countries women and men virtually are on equal footing regarding work, politics and even childcare. One can only try to imagine the immense changes that must have taken place in society, and the effects those had on both, men and women. Yet those changes did not just happen by chance, they required strong, self-confident women who recognised themselves as individual human beings, who committed themselves to the tough struggle for their personal freedom and were prepared to make various sacrifices. Some were successful, but there are also countless examples of women who didn’t make it. Kate Chopin ́s “The Awakening” deals with the transcendentalist theme of women’s self-discovery and its consequences on the example of its protagonist Edna Pontellier. Set in the late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, Louisiana, it provides the reader with a “considerable range of women’s behaviour during an era in which women were frequently categorised as similar in instincts and interests” (Solomon 119) and thus serves as a prime example for the analysis of the multiple roles that were open to the women of this time. Although Chopin was neither a particularly political nor feminist writer, it is important to understand the political and social circumstances of that time; for that reason the novel’s historical context will be dealt with initially. The next step will be to focus on some minor female characters and their roles as well as their acceptance in society , followed by the final characterisation of Edna Pontellier.
Author: Kate Chopin Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781985052307 Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics. The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams. Summary[edit] The novel opens with the Pontellier family-Léonce, a New Orleans businessman of Louisiana Creole heritage; his wife Edna; and their two sons, Etienne and Raoul-vacationing on Grand Isle at a resort on the Gulf of Mexico managed by Madame Lebrun and her two sons, Robert and Victor. Edna spends most of her time with her close friend Adèle Ratignolle, who cheerily and boisterously reminds Edna of her duties as a wife and mother. At Grand Isle, Edna eventually forms a connection with Robert Lebrun, a charming, earnest young man who actively seeks Edna's attention and affections. When they fall in love, Robert senses the doomed nature of such a relationship and flees to Mexico under the guise of pursuing a nameless business venture. The narrative focus moves to Edna's shifting emotions as she reconciles her maternal duties with her desire for social freedom and to be with Robert. When summer vacation ends, the Pontelliers return to New Orleans. Edna gradually reassesses her priorities and takes a more active role in her own happiness. She starts to isolate herself from New Orleans society and to withdraw from some of the duties traditionally associated with motherhood. Léonce eventually talks to a doctor about diagnosing his wife, fearing she is losing her mental faculties. The doctor advises Léonce to let her be and assures him that things will return to normal. When Léonce prepares to travel to New York City on business, he sends the boys to his mother. Left home alone for an extended period gives Edna physical and emotional room to breathe and reflect on various aspects of her life. While her husband is still away, she moves out of their home and into a small bungalow nearby and begins a dalliance with Alcée Arobin, a persistent suitor with a reputation for being free with his affections. Edna is shown as a sexual being for the first time in the novel, but the affair proves awkward and emotionally fraught....................... Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald...............
Author: Per Seyersted Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807106785 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 254
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Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local color school when she in 1899 shocked the American reading public with The Awakening, a novel which much resembles Madame Bovary. Though the critics praised the artistic excellence of the book, it was generally condemned for its objective treatment of the sensuous, independent heroine. Deeply hurt by the censure, Mrs. Chopin wrote little more, and she was soon forgotten. For decades the few critics who remembered her concentrated on the regional aspects of her work. In the Literary History of the United States, where Kate Chopin is highly praised as a local colorist, The Awakening is not even mentioned. In recent years, however, a few critics have given new attention to the novel, emphasizing its courageous realism. In the present book, Mr. Seyersted carries out an extensive re-examination of both the life and work of the author, basing it on her total oeuvre. Much new Kate Chopin material, such as previously unknown stories, letters, and a diary, has recently come to light. We can now see that she was a much more ambitious and purposeful writer than we have hitherto known. From the beginning, her special theme was female self-assertion. As each new success increased her self-confidence, she grew more and more daring in her descriptions of emancipated woman who wants to dictate her own life. Mr. Seyersted traces the author’s growth as an artist and as a penetrating interpreter of the female condition, and shows how her career culminated in The Awakening and the unknown story ‘The Storm.’ With these works, which were decades ahead of their time, Kate Chopin takes her place among the important American realist writers of the 1890’s.
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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'Souls Belated' is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton, famed for the book, "The Age of Innocence". It is a romantic tale about a woman with a tough decision to make. Lydia Tillotson has been separated from her husband and had rushed straight into the arms of her new lover Gannett. But when she receives the divorce papers from her husband, and Gannett expresses his desire to marry her, Lydia is now forced to decide what it is that she really wants. The short story is part of the author's 'The Greater Inclination' collection of short stories.
Author: Janet Beer Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415238205 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 190
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Providing all the tools for engaged, informed individual analysis of the text, this is an essential starting point for students of American literature and women's writing, or for anyone fascinated by Chopin's controversial work.
Author: Kate Chopin Publisher: Spark Publishing Group ISBN: 9781411407169 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 100
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Author: Dedria Bryfonski
Author: Dedria Bryfonski
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Author: Kate Chopin
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Author: Kate Chopin