Download or read book Abysses of Solitude written by Mary Elizabeth Papke and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kate Chopin written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on Kate Chopin's work.
Download or read book From Islands to Portraits written by Sergio Perosa and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.
Download or read book The Awakening written by Kate Chopin and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her to all else.
Download or read book Alone in America written by Robert A. Ferguson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone.
Download or read book Literature and the Human written by Andy Mousley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of fundamental questions of existence. This book re-affirms literature's existential value by developing a new critical vocabulary for thinking about literature's human meaningfulness. It puts this vocabulary into practice through close reading of a wide range of texts, from The Second Wakefield Shepherds’ Play to Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Individual chapters discuss: Literature’s engagement of the emotions Literature’s humanisation of history Literature’s treatment of universals and particulars The depth of reflection provoked by literary works Literature as a special kind of seeing and framing The question at the heart of the volume, of why literature matters, makes this book relevant to all students and professors of literature.
Download or read book Awakening The SAT Words From Literature written by Kate Chopin and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SAT Words from Literature presents a new approach to scoring high on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Rather than taking words directly from a dictionary and studying them, SAT Words from Literature presents vocabulary words that are found in classic literature in their original context. In this way, you will get a clear understanding of what the word can do in a sentence, what it might mean, and how it is used. Each vocabulary word is highlighted in the text and also reproduced in bold on the facing page, followed by the part of speech as it is used in the book, the pronunciation, an appropriate definition, and a synonym or antonym if applicable. Exercises that test your understanding of the vocabulary words are included at the end of the book. To make the exercises more manageable, words are arranged by chapters, or sections, so that there are not too many words in any one group. With this painless approach to learning vocabulary, you can boost your chances of acing the SAT.
Download or read book The Nineteenth century Novel written by Stephen Regan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth- century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Awakening written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this landmark feminist classic. All sentences are from the novel. Quizzes use language that describes the romantic settings of the Louisiana Gulf coast and New Orleans. Naturalism is reflected in figurative language and lush descriptions of "hot breath of the Southern night," "the voice of the sea is seductive," and "the touch of the sea is sensuous." Allusions blend Creole folklore, classical myths, Catholicism and classical music. Feminism is poetically expressed ("The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings").
Download or read book Mist Abyss and Solitude written by Pablo Beriachetto and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the darkest paths of mind. Horrors, past memories and nightmare creatures will be there to consume us into the void. Will we ever be able to find the wayout from the maze of our deepest feelings?
Download or read book Solitude s Symphony written by Paschal Arinze Elemuo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Solitude's Symphony: Navigating the Abyss of Loneliness to Find the Harmony Within" is a profound exploration of solitude, emotions, and self-discovery. The book unfolds like a symphony, delving into the enigma of loneliness, embracing the void, and understanding the essence of solitude. It navigates the labyrinth of melancholy, providing insights into identifying, expressing, and embracing it. The chapters explore the history, philosophy, psychology, biology, and artistry of melancholy, weaving a tapestry of cultural understanding. The impact of loneliness on health and the global prevalence are examined, offering theories, models, and personal stories. The inner orchestra comes alive, exploring emotions, personal identity, mindfulness, and empowerment. The book concludes with an encore, celebrating the harmony found within solitude. The prelude sets the stage for a transformative journey, inviting readers to engage actively with the symphony of solitude.
Download or read book Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton written by Carmen Trammell Skaggs and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overtones of Opera explores the discourse of opera -- both the art form and the social institution -- in selected works of Whitman, Poe, Alcott, Chopin, Cather, James, and Wharton. For some, opera provided a powerful artistic medium for expressing a private aesthetic experience; in opera, they discovered the embodied voice of the artist. Others found not only the spectacle of opera but also its spaces, the opera houses and boxes, perfectly suited for displaying the class-based and commodity driven aspirations of America's new aristocracy. This noteworthy study will inform and enlighten literary scholars, musicologists, and lovers of both opera and literature.
Download or read book Impossible Women written by Valerie Rohy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop.Addressing American ideologies of reproduction and representation, Impossible Women suggests that lesbian figures are made to symbolize both the unrepresentable and the failures of meaning inherent in language. Rohy traces the ways lesbian sexuality—relegated to the domain of the ineffable, yet endlessly subject to inscription—appears in tropes of transference and displacement, the disembodied voice, repetition-compulsion, and the uncanny. Impossible Women also asks what cultural work such figures perform, locating lesbian desire in American literary history and engaging issues of genre and narrative, social formations such as the rhetoric of the "New Woman," and intersections of racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Download or read book Awakening The Literary Touchstone Classic written by and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Literary Theory Using Film Adaptations written by Kathleen L. Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces ways to use film to ease the difficulty of introducing complex literary theories to students. By coupling works of literature with attendant films and with critical essays, the author provides instructors with accessible avenues for encouraging classroom discussion. Literary theories covered in depth are psychoanalytic criticism (The Awakening and film adaptations The End of August and Grand Isle), cultural criticism (A Streetcar Named Desire and its 1951 film version), and thematic criticism ("Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" and the film adaptation Splendor in the Grass). Other theories are used to clarify and support those referred to above. The work then includes a survey of the image patterns into which film adaptation theories can be grouped and how these theories relate to traditional literary theory.
Download or read book Verging on the Abyss written by Mary E. Papke and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-09-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and several of their shorter works. Papke begins with a brief examination of the ideology of true womanhood, which, she argues, permeates Chopin's and Wharton's fiction and world views. The remainder of her work offers an ideological reading of their social fiction in which their characters search for states of liminality, where they might achieve, however momentarily, autonomy. The author presents Chopin's and Wharton's female discourse as radical art because it dares to defy that which is both alienating and destructive. -- From product description.
Download or read book The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era written by Aliki Barnstone and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays traces Calvinism's presence in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates its impact as psychological construct, cultural institution, and socio-political model.
