Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin Criticism

• Chopin, Kate (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Kate Chopin's New Orleans Years
    • Chopin's ‘Désirée's Baby’
    • Kate Chopin's ‘Charlie’
    • Insistent Refrains and Self-Discovery: Accompanied Awakenings in Three Stories by Kate Chopin
    • The Can River Characters and Revisionist Mythmaking in the Work of Kate Chopin
    • Losing the Battle but Winning the War: Resistance to Patriarchal Discourse in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction
    • Fear, Freedom, and the Perils of Ethnicity: Otherness in Kate Chopin's ‘Beyond the Bayou’ and Zora Neale Hurston's ‘Sweat’
    • Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • ‘Acting Like Fools’: The Ill-Fated Romances of ‘At the 'Cadian Ball’ and ‘The Storm’
    • ‘The House of Sylvie’ in Kate Chopin's ‘Athénaïse’
    • The Politics of Rhetorical Strategy: Kate Chopin's ‘La Belle Zoraïde’
    • Awakened Men in Kate Chopin's Creole Stories
    • Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour’
    • Kate Chopin's ‘One Story’: Casting a Shadowy Glance on the Ethics of Regionalism
    • Kate Chopin's ‘Lilacs’ and the Myth of Persephone
    • In Possession of the Letter: Kate Chopin's ‘Her Letters’
  • Further Reading
• Chopin, Kate (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Kate Chopin's The Awakening as Feminist Criticism
    • Symbolic Setting in Kate Chopin's ‘A Shameful Affair’
    • A Note on Kate Chopin's ‘The White Eagle’
    • The Awakening: A Political Romance
    • Techniques of Distancing in the Fiction of Kate Chopin
    • Illusion and Archetype: The Curious Story of Edna Pontellier
    • Chopin's ‘A Shameful Affair.’
    • The Female Artist in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Birth and Creativity
    • ‘A Language Which Nobody Understood’: Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening
    • Kate Chopin's The Awakening: An Assault on American Racial and Sexual Mythology
    • The Awakening in a Course on Women in Literature
    • Edna's Wisdom: A Transitional and Numinous Merging
    • Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book
    • The Historical and Cultural Setting
    • Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening
    • Semiotic Subversion in ‘Désirée's Baby’
    • Literature of Deliverance: Images of Nature in The Awakening
    • The Strange Demise of Edna Pontellier
    • Athena of Goose? Kate Chopin's Ironical Treatment of Motherhood in ‘Athénaïse.’
    • Notes toward a fin-de-siècle Reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening
    • Chopin's ‘Ripe Figs.’
    • Multi-Cultural Aesthetic in Kate Chopin's ‘A Gentleman of Bayou Teche.’
    • Kate Chopin's Scribbling Women and the American Literary Marketplace
    • The Awakening: Waking Up at the End of the Line
    • Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in The Awakening
    • Reader Activation of Boundaries in Kate Chopin's ‘Beyond the Bayou’
    • Kate Chopin: Pre-Freudian Freudian
    • Rethinking White Female Silences: Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • Was Kate Chopin a Feminist?
    • Unlinking Race and Gender: The Awakening as a Southern Novel
    • Edna Pontellier's Revolt against Nature
    • The Search for a Feminine Voice in the Works of Kate Chopin
    • Kate Chopin and (Stretching) the Limits of Local Color Fiction
    • Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour.’
  • Further Reading