Essays about: "Chopin"
Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the word Chopin.
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16. Edna’s Failure to Find Her Female Role in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikationAbstract : In The Awakening we meet Edna, a woman in search of her female identity. She is uncomfortable in her role as the “patriarchal woman” and has trouble becoming either a “modern woman” or an “emancipated woman” To fully understand Edna’s search one must understand the patriarchal society in Chopin’s works and what it means to internalize this system. READ MORE
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17. "By All the Codes which I Am Acquainted with, I Am a Devilishly Wicked Specimen of the Sex" : The Individual/Culture Conflict in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikationAbstract : At the turn of the 19th century, ideas promoting women’s rights were sweeping across America. During that time Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was published, portraying a young woman, Edna Pontellier, who after several years of emotional unfullfilment in her marriage questions her place as a woman in her marriage as well in society. READ MORE
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18. The impromptu of being: Pasternak's conception of realism in Lejtenant Shmidt and in Shopen
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Universitetsbiblioteket; Stockholms universitet/Slaviska institutionenAbstract : In his short essay about Chopin (1945), Pasternak poses the question:What does realism in music mean?The answer to this question is far from obvious. And certainly the answer given byPasternak, in which he points to Chopin, together with Bach, as one of the great realistsin music; realist, that is, in the same meaning of the word as was Lev Tolstoj - this answer can of course be disputed. READ MORE
