THE AWAKENING
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800605107
ISBN-10: 1800605102
Pagini: 122
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Barclays Public Books
ISBN-10: 1800605102
Pagini: 122
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Barclays Public Books
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'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, 'The Storm'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna's rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, 'The Storm'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
When first published in 1899, "The Awakening" shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation.
Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity."
Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to "The Awakening." Now available in this inexpensive edition, it offers a powerful and provocative reading experience to modern readers.
Unabridged Dover (1993) republication of the work first published by Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago, 1899.
Notă biografică
Kate Chopin was born in St Louis, Missouri on 8 Feb 1850. Born Katherine O'Flaherty, she grew up in a predominantly female household after her father died when she was just four years old. Her father was an Irish immigrant, and her mother was French Creole. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, a local cotton trader, and together they had six children. In 1882 Oscar died from swamp fever, leaving Kate a widow with a large family to support, and the heir to his sizeable debts. She turned to writing in order to support her young family, publishing her first short story in 1889. A number of her works were subsequently published in literary magazines and popular American periodicals, including Vogue.
Chopin published only two novels in her lifetime: At Fault and The Awakening. The Awakening, published in 1899, was largely condemned as vulgar and immoral by critics of the time. Dismayed by such a harsh reception, Chopin cut short her brief career as a novelist, and for the remainder of her life focused solely on writing short stories, poetry and reviews. Kate Chopin died on 22 August 1904 from a brain haemorrhage.
Chopin published only two novels in her lifetime: At Fault and The Awakening. The Awakening, published in 1899, was largely condemned as vulgar and immoral by critics of the time. Dismayed by such a harsh reception, Chopin cut short her brief career as a novelist, and for the remainder of her life focused solely on writing short stories, poetry and reviews. Kate Chopin died on 22 August 1904 from a brain haemorrhage.
Caracteristici
Contains the full text of the novel
Looks at the novel from many different critical perspectives, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and feminist
This new edition also contains contextual documents
Looks at the novel from many different critical perspectives, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and feminist
This new edition also contains contextual documents
Recenzii
She does not speak only to women, but she speaks most powerfully about them.
Cuprins
About the Series.- About this Volume.- PART ONE: THE AWAKENING: THE COMPLETE TEXT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts.- The Complete Text.- Cultural Documents:.- Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening.- Advertisements from Women's Magazines.- Fashion Plates from Women's Magazines.- A People who Live Amid Romance; R. McEnery Stuart (Ladies Home Journal, December 1896).- The Artist and Marriage (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1899).- What it Means to be a Wife; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, March 1899).- The True Meaning of Motherhood; H. Watterson Moody (Ladies Home Journal, May 1899).- What Women Find to do All Day (Ladies Home Journal, April 1899).- The Evolution of Woman in the South; W. Gregory (Godey's Magazine, October 1897).- PART TWO: THE AWAKENING: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Feminist Criticism and The Awakening.- A Feminist Perspective: Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book; E. Showalter.- The New Historicism and The Awakening.- A New Historicist Perspective: Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening; M. Stange.- Gender Criticism and The Awakening.- A Gender Perspective: The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening; E. LeBlanc.- Deconstruction and The Awakening.- A Deconstructionist Perspective: 'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening; P. S. Yaeger.- Reader-Response and The Awakening.- A Reader-Response Perspective: The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis; P. A. Treichler.- Combining Critical Perspectives: Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening; C. Griffin Wolff.- Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.- About the Contributors.