Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening
Editor(s): Bernard Koloski
Pages: xi & 170 pp.
Published: 1988
ISBN: 9780873525084
"This is a storehouse of ideas, all well-substantiated and provocative. The collection is a tribute to the value of The Awakening and a reflection of the best attitudes of the profession."
Mississippi Quarterly
"Besides the precise and detailed front and back matter from the editor, the twenty-one essays by faculty in English, history, and women's studies departments will certainly help the instructor...."
American Literature
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
An MLA survey taken in preparation for this volume indicates that teachers are using The Awakening in no fewer than twenty areas of the college curriculum--from freshman writing and textual linguistics to American literature and women's studies. The book is "something of a teacher's dream," writes Bernard Koloski; The Awakening is "an exceptionally rich work that rewards close literary analysis in surprising and exciting ways," the prose is clear and accessible--and the novel is short.
Like other volumes in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, the book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," surveys editions and anthologies, readings for students, background studies, biographical and critical works, and audiovisual aids. In part 2, "Approaches," twenty-three experienced teachers of The Awakening describe a variety of imaginative instructional strategies, from exploring the novel's theme of childbirth and motherhood to comparing the lead character, Edna, to the mythological figures of Icarus and Psyche.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening
PART 1: MATERIALS
Bernard Koloski
Paperback Editions and Anthologies
Further Reading for Students
- Further Reading for Teachers
- Background Studies
- Biography
- Critical Studies
- Bibliography
Aids to Teaching
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Women's Experience
The Awakening as a Prototype of the Novel of Awakening
Susan J. Rosowski
The Awakening in the Context of the Experience, Culture, and Values of Southern Women
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Childbirth and Motherhood in The Awakening and in "Athénaïse"
Patricia Hopkins Lattin
The Awakening and the Woman Question
Dale Marie Bauer and Andrew M. Lakritz
Women's Language in The Awakening
E. Laurie George
Backgrounds
A New Biographical Approach
Emily Toth
The Historical and Cultural Setting
Nancy Walker
Chopin's Stories of Awakening
Mary E. Papke
The Awakening's Relationship with American Regionalism, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism
Peggy Skaggs
Course Contexts
The Awakening in a Course on Women in Literature
Barbara C. Ewell
The Awakening in an Introductory Literature Course
Ann R. Morris and Margaret M. Dunn
The Awakening in an American Literature Survey Course
Thomas Bonner, Jr.
The Awakening in a Research and Composition Course
Evelyn Sweet-Hurd
The Awakening in a Course on Philosophical Ideas in Literature
Jo Ellen Jacobs
Patterns That Yield Meaning
Characters as Foils to Edna
Barbara H. Solomon
Two Settings: The Islands and the City
Suzanne W. Jones
Symbolism and Imagery in The Awakening
Joyce Dyer
Stylistic Categories in The Awakening
Nancy Rogers
Edna as Icarus: A Mythic Issue
Lawrence Thornton
Edna as Psyche: The Self and the Unconscious
Rosemary F. Franklin
A Reader-Response Approach
Elizabeth Rankin
Works Cited
Index
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