An edition of The Awakening (1899)

The Awakening

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

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An edition of The Awakening (1899)

The Awakening

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

  • 3.6 (31 ratings) ·
  • 356 Want to read
  • 17 Currently reading
  • 48 Have read

This edition of Chopin's classic novel presents the 1969 Seyersted text along with five critical essays--newly commissioned of revised for a student audience--that read The Awakening from five contemporary critical perspectives.

Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.

The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Chopin and The Awakening, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms
--back cover

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English
Pages
343

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2005-12, LIANA LEVI Piccolo
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2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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Table of Contents

Tradition and the female talent: The awakening as a solitary book / Elaine Showalter
Personal property: exchange value and the female self in The awakening / Margit Stange
Thanatos and eros: Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
"A language which nobody understood": emancipatory strategies in The awakening / Patricia S. Yaeger
The construction of ambiguity in The awakening: a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Boston, USA
Series
Case Studies in Contemporary Criticsm
Copyright Date
1993

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1294.C63 A6435 1993

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
viii, 343 p. ;
Number of pages
343

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24744872M
Internet Archive
awakeningcomplet00chop
ISBN 10
0312062354
ISBN 13
9780312062354
OCLC/WorldCat
489661006, 856716676, 1000413242, 803115641
Google
9hGQQgAACAAJ
Goodreads
61436230

Work Description

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.

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