scholarly journals CAMINHOS DE TRANSGRESSÃO: A HEROÍNA QUE OUSA E DESAFIA NA OBRA-PRIMA DE KATE CHOPIN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deisi Luzia Zanatta ◽  
Rosemary Elza Finatti
Keyword(s):  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Gerard Genette

Kate Chopin se tornou uma importante escritora da literatura realista dos Estados Unidos, no século XIX, por abordar a temática de conscientização feminina em sua obra. O universo feminino de suas narrativas constitui-se de personagens que buscam liberdade e autoafirmação em meio à hostilidade da dominação masculina na cultura fin de siècle. O despertar (1899), a obra-prima da autora, escandalizou a sociedade sulista estadunidense e foi considerado por grande parte da crítica como um romance vulgar e imoral, por tratar de questões como a independência afetiva, financeira e sexual da protagonista Edna Pontellier, que percorre um caminho transgressor em busca da emancipação. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho objetiva apresentar a trajetória de emancipação feminina da heroína, que rompe com o estereótipo de mulher ideal construído pela ideologia patriarcal, por meio de atitudes consideradas subversivas para a época. Para tanto, a análise será embasada pelos pressupostos teóricos de Virginia Wolf (1942) acerca da imagem do anjo do Lar, de Wendy Martin (1988) em relação às personagens femininas da obra, de Antônio Candido (1976), Edward Morgan Forster (2005) e Ruth Miguel (2016) sobre a personagem de ficção e de Gérard Genette (1972) a respeito do foco narrativo.

The Awakening

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Chopin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Artistic Freedom

‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna’s rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, ‘The Storm’.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Coyer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Medical Humanism

If Blackwood’s helped to generate a recuperative medical humanism in the first half of the nineteenth century, what was its legacy? This ‘Coda’ turns to the fin de siècle to trace some key examples of a resurgence of the magazine’s mode of medical humanism at a time of perceived crisis for the medical profession, when many began ‘to worry that the transformation of medicine into a science, as well as the epistemological and technical successes of the new sciences, may have been bought at too great a price’....

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