Early on I decided that the career of an English teacher was the vocation for which I was best suited. I read and studied voraciously and tried hard to build my vocabulary.
In college I was overwhelmed with assigned reading and had to speed through books so fast that I couldn’t really enjoy them.. They got mixed up because of being read simultaneously. For instance, after a course called The Picturesque Novel, I read how Oliver Gulliver travels On the Road with friends named Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy, shouts Yahoo when he eats a huckleberrry, and recaptures a fugitive black man named Lord Jim, who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf and is rooming with Roderick at Random House .
The next year I read about a couple of brothers named Karamazov and their sister Carrie acting out The American Tragedy, the men contracting a disease called Moby-Dick. They all write pustulary scarlet letters to women named Pamela and Clarissa. A Frenchman named A. Tranjé falls asleep in his mother’s coffin and dreams of being a catcher in the rye, protecting children from drunken overeaters named Gargantua and Pantagruel,. The sun also rose on Madame Bovary committing crimes and suffering punishment for pulling the wings off doves (one flew over the cuckoo’s nest anyway), for which she was stripped of her red badge of courage and left naked and dead. Marcel Proust served cookies to someone named Madeleine. The hallucinogenic prose/poem “Rhyme of Silas Mariner” by Samuel Eliot Coleridge resonated with memorable lines such as “Water, water everywhere/ Where are my buckets, my buckets!” Coleridge was actually a pen name of Marianne Evans, who was having an affair with Kate Chopin while her French alter ego(s) George(s) Sand engaged in a menage a toit with composer Franz Schindler Liszt and Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, who was literature’s first lady detective and solved the mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe. See Murders@droom.org.
On my comprehensive exam, responding to a question about archetypal heroes thwarted in their desire for power, and rotating from wheel to whoa, I wrote of Augie’s march through a bleak house of seven gables bellowing from there to eternity in a rant filled with sound and fury signifying his pride and prejudice, and demanding the return of his native son.
The examiners passed me with high honors and I graduated with great expectorations. I looked forward eagerly to the task of awakening and molding young minds to the treasures of whirled literature. Transcripts and completed employment application will follow.
Kerry Michael Wood is a retired teacher of English and author of numerous textbooks. More info is available at his website [http://www.kerrymwood.com] as well as in the resource boxes of his previously submitted ezinearticles.
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The Awakening $4.83 Here we have a herione who appears to be lovable but emotionally scarred [well at least a little timid].\r\nSara had been dumped by the banker [who, grin, is now married and the father of twins]. She runs a small victorian boarding house.\r\nShe is in the process of putting up the screens [from the roof, no less] and is talking to herself [mostly about her missing boarder]\r\n\r\nShe figures her … |
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The Awakening $0.99 The Awakening was written by Kate Chopin and first published in 1899. From her vacation to the Gulf of Mexico to her return to New Orleans, Edna Pontellier, the wife of Léonce and mother of two boys, embarks on an emotionally fraught journey to discover love and self-fulfillment. Her relationships with her husband, with LeBrun and with Mademoiselle Reisz lead to a battle with isolation, conflicti… |
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The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions) $9.29 This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Edition series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole cult… |
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The Awakening – Kate Chopin $45 Kate Chopin's The Awakening has been seen as an early evocation of the ideas that would galvanize the women's liberation movement. Critic Harold Bloom sees the work as arising from the autoerotic energies inherent to the poems of Walt Whitman. "Edna emulates Whitman," he writes, "by falling in love with her own body." This new volume containing a selection of critical essays from various schools of criticism will assist students reading and studying this great American work. Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of Chopin's life, an index, a bibliography, and an introduction written by the inestimable Harold Bloom complete the volume. |
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Kate Chopin $54 Initially known for her short stories and articles, Kate Chopin was considered to be little more than a regional writer. Published in 1899, her second novel, "The Awakening," received little attention until the 1950s. Now, Chopin's work is known for its play with narrative styles and its examination into the complexities of women's interior lives. This edition is newly updated and featuring supplemental materials such as a chronology, bibliography, and an index. |
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The Awakening by Walker, Nancy A Chopin, Kate Edition , 0 $12.99 First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul, this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening, Kate Chopin’s last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as beautifully written. And Willa Cather described its style as exquisite, sensitive, and iridescent. This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim… Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art. — From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. |
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The Awakening by Chopin, Kate Edition , 0 $19.49 Kate Chopin's compelling, candid portrait of a woman attempting to seek a life beyond her role as devoted wife and mother was considered dangerous when first published in 1899 The Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. No-one expects that Edna Pontellier should be preoccupied with anything more than her husband and children. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of Louisiana society. Now considered a classic, this tale of liberation caused a scandal when it was first published and was dismissed as vulgar, unhealthy, and morbid by other contemporary reviewers, effectively ending Chopin's career. |
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For Student Series Novels: The Awakening by Kate Chopin $8.99 The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier and the changes that occur in her thinking and lifestyle as the result of a summer romance. At the start of the story, Edna is a young mother of two and the life of a successful New Orleans businessman. While the family is vacationing at a seaside resort, Edna becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun, a younger man who pays special attention to her. Moonlit walks and intimate conversations with Robert spark feelings that Edna has forgotten. When she returns to the city, Edna throws off the trappings of her old life-devotion to family, attention to societal expectations, and adherence to tradition-to explore independence in love, life, and sexual fulfillment. While this plot is common by today’s standards, it caused a huge commotion when Herbert S. Stone and Company published The Awakening in 1899. The book was removed from library shelves in Kate Chopin’s hometown of St. Louis, and the St. Louis Fine Arts Club expelled Chopin from its membership. Although there was some praise for the novel’s artistry and insight, critics generally denounced Chopin for her failure to condemn Edna’s actions and for allowing Edna to make her final choice in life. As evidenced by the many reprints of the book, modern critics appreciate Chopin’s skill and artistry-particularly her use of psychological realism, symbolic imagery, and sensual themes. The feminist movement lauds Chopin’s portrayal of Edna and the restraints tradition places on women. |
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The Complete Works of Kate Chopin $33.56 This volume of the complete works of Kate Chopin includes her short stories, juvenilia, and the famous “local color” stories from A NIGHT IN ACADIE and BAYOU FOLK, as well as her novels AT FAULT and the classic THE AWAKENING. |
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