The Awakening
Subtitle: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical & Historical Contexts, Critical History, & Essays from Five Contemporary Critica. Perspectives (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Contributors: Nancy A. Walker (Editor)
Series: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticsm
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780312062354
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Adultery; Fiction; Louisiana; Women; Reference
Description: 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
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Table of contents: title: Tradition and the female talent: The awakening as a solitary book / Elaine Showalter; title: Personal property: exchange value and the female self in The awakening / Margit Stange; title: Thanatos and eros: Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff; title: "A language which nobody understood": emancipatory strategies in The awakening / Patricia S. Yaeger; title: The construction of ambiguity in The awakening: a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler.