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" Awakenings : "
edited by Bernard Koloski.
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BL
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960250
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b714620
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Awakenings : : the story of the Kate Chopin revival /\ edited by Bernard Koloski.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2009.
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Southern literary studies
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1 online resource (ix, 226 pages)
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0807134953
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: 0807136689
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: 9780807134955
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: 9780807136683
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9780807134955
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
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| Contents
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My part in reviving Kate Chopin / Emily Toth -- Linked fortunes: Kate Chopin, the short story (and me) / Barbara C. Ewell -- Bringing Kate Chopin to Britain: a transatlantic perspective / Helen Taylor -- Creating the new American library's Awakening / Barbara H. Solomon -- So long as we read Chopin / Mary E. Papke -- My life with Kate Chopin / Thomas Bonner, Jr -- On first looking (and looking once again) into Chopin's fiction: Kate and Ernest and "A pair of silk stockings" / Robert D. Arner -- The death of Edna Pontellier and the card catalog / Marlene Springer -- Romantic overtures / Lynda S. Boren -- Kate Chopin and the future of short fiction studies / Susan Lohafer -- Reckoning with race in The awakening / Anna Shannon Elfenbein -- Feeling the countercurrent / Bernard Koloski.
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One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But Chopin has not always been featured in the literary curriculum. Though she achieved national success in her lifetime (1850-1904) as a writer of Louisiana "local color" fiction, after her death her work fell into obscurity until 1969, when Norwegian literary scholar Per Seyersted published The Complete Works of Kate Chopin and sparked a remarkabl.
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Chopin, Kate,1850-1904-- Appreciation.
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Chopin, Kate,1850-1904-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Chopin, Kate,1850-1904., Awakening.
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Chopin, Kate,1850-1904
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Art appreciation.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Awakening (Chopin, Kate)
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813/.4
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PS1294.C63Z58 2009eb
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Koloski, Bernard,1937-
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