Essays about: "kate chopin the story of an hour"

Found 3 essays containing the words kate chopin the story of an hour.

  1. 1. Make Room for the New Woman : The Extinction of the Earth-bound Angel in Three Short Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Julia Hellström; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist consciousness; gender; space; patriarchy; repression;

    Abstract : This essay explores the feminist message in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “An Extinct Angel” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The relationship between space and gender will be examined in connection with theoretical conceptions of female consciousness. READ MORE

  2. 2. Story World Absorption : An Analysis of EFL Students´ Immersive Reading Experience and Perceived Reading Enjoyment

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : August Larsson; Elvira Aspra; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Prior research within the field of immersive reading has determined that the process of being absorbed by a story consists of four dimensions: attention, mental imagery, emotional engagement, and transportation, dimensions that in turn influence readers' perceived enjoyment when reading fiction. In contrast to a majority of the prior research within the field of immersive reading, this essay aims to identify factors that specifically influence EFL students' story world absorption and reading enjoyment. READ MORE

  3. 3. In Search of Eros and Freedom : Four Portraits of Women by Kate Chopin

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Elizabet Bate Holmberg; [2009]
    Keywords : Kate Chopin; The Story of an Hour ; A Respectable Woman ; Athénaïse; The Awakening; portraits of women; provocation; Eros; freedom; New Woman fiction; Kate Chopin; kvinnolitteratur; provokation; lust; frihet;

    Abstract : In this essay, Kate Chopin's portraits of women in three short stories, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse and the novel The Awakening are studied. It is argued that the outcomes depicted can be seen as increasingly provocative and extreme and that the main conflict and ending of The Awakening is a development and combination of the conflicts and resolutions in the three short stories. READ MORE