"Shuddering, Shrinking, Shriveling": Intimacy and Repulsion in Kate Chopin's "The Unexpected" and The Awakening

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Linda Kornasky
Keyword(s):  
The Awakening

The Cortisol Response to Normal and Nocturnal Awakening

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Hucklebridge ◽  
A. Clow ◽  
H. Rahman ◽  
P. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Area Under The Curve ◽  
Secretory Activity ◽  
Linear Increase ◽  
Cortisol Response ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Basal Cortisol ◽  
Free Cortisol ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Nocturnal Awakening ◽  
Night Awakening

Abstract Free cortisol as measured in saliva increases markedly following awakening. It is not clear, however, whether this is truly a stress-neuroendocrine response to awakening or a manifestation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) circadian cycle. We investigated whether the awakening cortisol response can be generated in the middle of nocturnal sleep, when secretory activity in the HPA axis is low. In a within subject design, salivary cortisol response was measured under three different awakening conditions: (1) awakening at the normal morning awakening time; (2) awakening four hours prior to normal awakening time, and (3) awakening the following morning after interrupted sleep. The overall main effect was a linear increase in free cortisol following awakening with no significant interaction with awakening condition. Cortisol levels, as determined by area under the cortisol curve calculated with reference to zero, did differ by awakening condition. The two morning awakening conditions were comparable but values were lower for night awakening. Area under the curve change (calculated with reference to the first awakening cortisol base value), however, did not distinguish the three awakening conditions. We conclude from these data that there is a clear free cortisol response to awakening for both nocturnal and morning awakening although the absolute levels produced are lower for nocturnal awakening when basal cortisol is low. Nocturnal interruption of sleep did not affect the subsequent morning response.

Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084 as a Journey of an Apolitical Mother

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Sadhana Rengaswamy. R ◽  
S. Ambika
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
Mahasweta Devi ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The People

Mahasweta Devi is one of the most important writers writing in India today. she stands with few equals among today's Asian writers in the dedication and directness with which she has turned writing into a form of service to the people. Her writing is disturbing because it shows the reader her or his own true face. Her Mother of 1084 analyzes the occurrences of failed Naxalite insurgency in Bengal in the 1970s. It shows the larger problem of the nation’s suppression of any authentic form of subaltern insurgency. It’s a saga of the Naxalite resistance in Bengal through the characters of Sujata and Nandini, her powerful exploration of subjectivity voiced through the female character. It’s a tragedy of an apolitical mother. This paper explores how the Naxalite movement brings two subaltern mothers together instead of their class barriers which in turn lead to the awakening of Sujata.

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