The Awakening Annotated Bibliography Essay

Kaelyn Thurmond
Mrs. Ermis
ENGL 1302-011
4 November 2014
Annotated Bibliography
Bogard, Carley Rees. "The Awakening: A Refusal to Compromise." The University of Michigan Papers in Women 's Studies 2.3 (1977): 15-31. Rpt. in World Literature Criticism, Supplement 1-2: A Selection of Major Authors from Gale 's Literary Criticism Series. Ed. Polly Vedder. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 3 Nov. 2014.
Carley Bogard presents the criticism of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening by examining the main character, Edna Pontellier. She argues the basic conflict of how Edna experiences the tension of sexual initiation while struggling for self-assertion and identity. In my research paper I will use this source to represent how The Awakening shows the theme of oppression of self-identity. I will incorporate this source as one of my examples for analyzing the theme of oppression of self-identity.
Chopin, Kate, and Nancy A.
Walker. The Awakening: Complete, Authoritative Text with
Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five
Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston: Bedford of St. Martin 's, 1993. Print.
Nancy Walker she describes the definition of feminist criticism. Walker defines feminist criticism that can come in many forms and have a variety of goals. She also translates the definition of deconstruction and how it can have the reputation for being the most complex and forbidding of contemporary critical approaches to literature. Lastly she outlines how deconstruction is used in The Awakening. I will use this source to help represent the main idea of feminist criticism in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.

Cunningham, Mark. "The Autonomous Female Self and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin 's 'Story of an Hour '." English Language Notes 42.1 (Sept. 2004): 48-55. Rpt.
In Short Story Criticism. Vol. 110. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. Web. 3 Nov. 2014.
Mark Cunningham analyzes the criticism of the main character Louise Mallard in
“The Story of an Hour”. Within his criticism he describes how the story portrays the attempt to break from “life-denying” limitations within Mr. Mallard’s society. I will use this resource to support the theme of oppression of self-identity in both The Awakening and “The Story of an Hour”. I will incorporate this source within my detailing of the theme I chose that is represented in “The Story of an Hour”.

"Mary E. Papke on “The Story of an Hour”." Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction. Bernard Koloski. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 132-134. Twayne 's Studies in Short Fiction 65. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Nov. 2014.
Mary Papke describes how “The Story of an Hour” analyzes a moment in a woman’s life where when the boundaries of the tolerated life she accepts suddenly shatters and within that a process of self-consciousness begins. She also summarizes certain details within the story that sums up the theme of oppression of self-identity. I will use this source as a representation of theme I chose, oppression of self-identity, to help explain how it used within “The Story of an Hour”.

Streater, Kathleen M. "Adele Ratignolle: Kate Chopin 's Feminist At Home In The
Awakening. Midwest Quarterly 48.3 (2007): 406-416. Literary Reference Center. Web.
3 Nov. 2014.
Kathleen Streater analyzes the feminism of one of the characters, Adele Ratignolle, in The Awakening. She describes how the character of Adele Ratignolle is sometimes overshadowed by the feminism of heroine by the main character, Edna Pontellier. Lastly she presents the fact of how Kate Chopin offers readers more than just one definition of feminist expression. I will use this source by incorporating Streater’s criticism of feminine possibility in The Awakening.