Style and Method in The Portrait of a Lady and The Awakening
Author: Ann Margaret McDonald
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Ann Margaret McDonald
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aimee Pozorski
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 152752017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature is a collection of fifteen original essays, and a reprint of a classic essay, that reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. Approached from the method of close reading and the theoretical perspective of gender theory, these essays look at the forgotten women at the heart of such beloved works as The Tragic Muse, The Awakening, The Age of Innocence, The Great Gatsby, Machinal, Passing, The Sound and the Fury, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Hours. In taking up the famous question “What does a woman want?” this collection finds some answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, freedom, and – above all – independence.
Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: Modernista
Published: 2024-01-16
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9180945252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn late 19th-century New Orleans, social constraints are strict, especially for a married woman. Edna Pontellier leads a secure life with her husband and two children, but her restlessness grows within the confined societal norms, and the expectations placed upon her – from her husband and the world around her – create increasing pressure. During a trip to Grand Isle, an island off the coast of Louisiana, her life is turned upside down by an intense love affair, and passion forces her to question the foundations of her – and every woman’s – existence. Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening caused a scandal with its outspokenness when it was published in 1899. The novel’s openly sexual themes and disregard for marital and societal conventions led to it not being reprinted for fifty years. It wasn't until the 1950s that Chopin’s work was rediscovered, and The Awakening received significant acclaim. Today, it is not only seen as an early feminist milestone but also as a classic. KATE CHOPIN [1851–1904] was born in St Louis. She had six children during her marriage, and it wasn't until after her husband's death in 1882 that she emerged as a writer. She published short stories in magazines such as Vogue and The Atlantic, gaining appreciation and recognition for her depictions of the American South. However, she was also criticized for her disregard for social traditions and racial barriers.
Author: Joel Porte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-01-26
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780521347532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on Henry James's most appealing and accessible novel.
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 1400040590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author celebrates the art of fiction as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems, and discusses the evolution of the novel and the practice of novel-writing.
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 0307480984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that "inspires wicked delight.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review From classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro, Jane Smiley explores the power of the form, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just how it works its magic. She invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own habits and spilling the secrets of her craft, and offering priceless advice to aspiring authors. Every page infects us anew with the passion for reading that is the governing spirit of this gift to book lovers everywhere.
Author: Per Seyersted
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1980-04-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780807106785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKate 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: Lynda S. Boren
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0807166480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives—biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist—with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening.
Author: William Crookes
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 1064
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK