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--'--> in-browser audio player requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. </div> LibriVox recording of The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: “The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide.
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Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening. [ About the Program | Interviews | Chronology ] [ Electronic Library | Additional Resources | Credits ]
Contemporary Criticism on Chopin's Awakening. Coming, Aphrodite! by Willa Cather. Don Hedger had lived for four years on the top floor of an old house onthe south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever disturbed him.He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except on the north,where he had built in a many-paned studio window that looked upon a courtand upon the roofs and walls of other buildings.
His room was verycheerless, since he never got a ray of direct sunlight; the south cornerswere always in shadow. In one of the corners was a clothes closet, builtagainst the partition, in another a wide divan, serving as a seat by dayand a bed by night. In the front corner, the one farther from the window,was a sink, and a table with two gas burners where he sometimes cookedhis food.
There, too, in the perpetual dusk, was the dog's bed, and oftena bone or two for his comfort. The dog was a Boston bull terrier, and Hedger explained his surlydisposition by the fact that he had been bred to the point where it toldon his nerves. Hedger encouraged him. The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage.
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage But not on a shell, she starts, Archaic, for the sea.
But on the first-found weed She scuds the glitters, Noiselessly, like one more wave. She too is discontent And would have purple stuff upon her arms, Tired of the salty harbors, Eager for the brine and bellowing Of the high interiors of the sea. The wind speeds her on, Blowing upon her hands And watery back. The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold. “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .” by Jack Spicer. The Future by Matthew Arnold. The Odd Last Thing She Did by Brad Leithauser. As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman. Swim, Girl, Swim by J. Patrick Lewis. For Gertrude Ederle As Europe woke from sleep, Young Trudy Ederle At Cap Gris Nez in France Dived into a daunting sea.
Many had tried to make This superhuman swim— Thirty-five punishing miles. Chances, at best, were slim. When Fury found the waves, Far from the western shore, Her trainer shouted, "Let's turn back! " But Trudy cried, "What for? " Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening. Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening Editor(s): Bernard Koloski Pages: xi & 170 pp.
Published: 1988 ISBN: 9780873525084 "This is a storehouse of ideas, all well-substantiated and provocative. Lesson 1: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": No Choice but Under? Realism The websites used in the Activity provide a greater amount of detail—and complication—of literary realism of the 19th century, but the following two definitions serve as good starting points.
In its literary usage, the term realism is often defined as a method or form in fiction that provides a "slice of life," an "accurate representation of reality. " —from the Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism, ed. Joseph Childers and Gary HentziLiterary realism is a 19th century conception related to industrial capitalism.
In general, it means the use of the imagination to represent things as common sense supposes they are. Literary realism is a variable, complex, and often argued about concept. Local Color and Regionalism These two literary terms are often used interchangeably, and certainly they have many similarities. Although the terms regionalism and local color are sometimes used interchangeably, regionalism generally has broader connotations.