Dara Llewellyn (essay date spring 1996)
SOURCE: Llewellyn, Dara. “Reader Activation of Boundaries in Kate Chopin's ‘Beyond the Bayou.’” Studies in Short Fiction 33, no. 2 (spring 1996): 255-62.
[In the following essay, Llewellyn examines Chopin's symbolic use of the physical setting of “Beyond the Bayou.”]
Boundaries exist everywhere in the worlds created within short stories and within the experience this genre offers the reader. Generally, we use the word “boundary” in the ordinary sense of demarcation, but I would like to...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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