"Awakening" as the Novel-Precursor of Modernism in the American Women's Literature of the 19th century (Literary and Critical Reception).
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2016, Vol 84, Issue 2
Abstract
The research deals with the issues of modernism in the creative writing of American women writers at the end of the 19thcentury. The article presents the results of the study of Kate Chopin’s "Awakening" (1899) in the light of manifestations of modernism and feminism (concerning the modernist tendencies in the society and literature). Definition of vectors of Chopin’s ideological and artistic evolution actualized historical and genetic, historical and functional methods of study; disclosure of features of the elements of poetics of the writer required the use of structural and functional method. The study of features of the embodiment of female perspective in the novels implemented by the writer is based on the theoretical concepts of feminist critics. The researcher proves that some features of ''forthcoming” modernism are artistically reflected in the novel, along with such crucial for Chopin’s writing themes as “love and passion, marriage and independence, freedom and restraint''. Kate Chopin’s feminist viewpoints which were far ahead of her time became principal for many of Kate Chopin’s women characters (the winning of a self, the keeping of it). It is stated that Chopin expresses a modernist's disillusionment with Victorian society's conventions through her treatment of society and religion as forms of patriarchy, family values; she questions fin-de-siècle gender roles, and portrays the women’s search for their identities. In constructing her heroine's journey to her new self-hood Chopin enriches the text with the complexities of multiple literary traditions: realism, naturalism, and romanticism, but refuses to exclusively adopt one clear literary stance.
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O. O. Nagachevska
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