The Awakening

by Chopin, Kate; Walker, Nancy A.

• ISBN13: 9780312062354
• ISBN10: 0312062354
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Table of Contents

About the Series	iii	(2)
About This Volume	v
PART ONE The Awakening: The Complete Text	3	(138)
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts	3	(16)
The Complete Text	19	(122)
PART TWO The Awakening: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism	141	(188)
A Critical History of The Awakening	141	(17)
Feminist Criticism and The Awakening	158	(32)
What Is Feminist Criticism?	158	(7)
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	165	(4)
A Feminist Perspective: Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book	169	(21)
ELAINE SHOWALTER
The New Historicism and The Awakening	190	(28)
What Is the New Historicism?	190	(8)
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography	198	(3)
A New Historicist Perspective: Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening	201	(17)
MARGIT STANGE
Psychoanalytic Criticism and The Awakening	218	(41)
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?	218	(11)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	229	(4)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Thanatos and Eros: Kate Chopin's The Awakening	233	(26)
CYNTHIA GRIFFIN WOLFF
Deconstruction and The Awakening	259	(38)
What Is Deconstruction?	259	(9)
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography	268	(2)
A Deconstructionist Perspective: "A Language Which Nobody Understood": Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening	270	(27)
PATRICIA S. YAEGER
Reader-Response Criticism and The Awakening	297	(32)
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?	297	(8)
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	305	(3)
A Reader-Response Perspective: The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis	308	(21)
PAULA A. TREICHLER
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms	329	(12)
About the Contributors	341