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10 Cards in this Set
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Kate Chopin 1850-1904 |
- Civil war era - Raised by 3 generations of women - Grew up in St. Louis - French - Married man named Oscar at 20 yrs old, who dies of Malaria when she is 32 - 6 Children, 5 sons, 1 daughter |
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Kate Chopin |
- wrote about 100 short stories after spouse dies - Becomes published - very well respected and loved - Wrote "The Awakening" but it was very vulgar and immoral; banned, people didn't like it - dies in 1904 |
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Kate Chopin |
- Stories revived in 1950's - "The Awakening" was originally called "A solitary Life" - Local color author - representing a city/place intentionally - Creole culture |
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Kate Chopin |
Progressive for her time Never remarried after spouse died |
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The Storm |
- Written by Kate Chopin - Deemed to be too ironic to be published - Napoleonic Code - limitations - Catholic background - Sequal to "At the Cadian Ball" and falls 5 years later - The storm symbolizes the affair - She seems to view her husband as inferior |
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Story of an Hour |
- Written by Kate Chopin - Woman finds out her husband dies - Loving Marriage - At first she feels that this is something trying to posses her - Chopin shows that it is more important to be yourself than being in love |
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Desiree's Baby |
- Written by Kate Chopin - white woman has baby with white man - baby appears to be mixed with black heritage - husband assumes that she has a black parent -Armand begins to act like she is not even a human being - She is devastated and kills herself and baby - Armand later finds out that it is he who has a black parent |
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Naturalism |
- Look at mankind scientifically - distance from characters - Status, environment determines what happens - No free will - Nature is indifferent |
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Stephen Crane 1871-1900 |
- Died at age 28 - American Author - Write "Maggie:A Girl of the Streets" - Story is about a girl forced into prostitution - Was not sugar coated - people hated it - Also wrote "red Badge" in 1895 - About a battle, collected ideas from research - in 1897 becomes war correspondant |
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Stephen Crane |
Gets on ship SS Coridor, which wrecks - GHets of 10 ft boat and is on open sea w/ 4 people - Common law marries a woman - Traveled and contracted many viruses Dies of Terburculosis - Gained excellent rep after he died |
