A GREEN AND yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
“Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!”
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
by Kate Chopin
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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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Adultery, American literature, Classic Literature, Criticism and interpretation, feminist fiction, feminist literature, Fiction, History, Interpersonal attraction, Interpersonal relations, literary fiction, Louisiana Creoles, Man-woman relationships, manners and customs, Marriage, Married people, Married women, Modern Literature, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Romance fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology), Short Stories, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Women, American fiction (fictional works by one author)People
Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Kate Chopin (1850-1904), Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame PontellierShowing 14 featured editions. View all 346 editions?
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The Awakening
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The Awakening
2000, Bedford/St. Martin's
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The Awakening: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
1993, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
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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.
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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.
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