Development of Female Identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

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dc.contributor.advisorVarró, Gabriella
dc.contributor.authorRendes, Ildikó
dc.contributor.departmentDE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Karhu_HU
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-18T08:08:29Z
dc.date.available2013-02-18T08:08:29Z
dc.date.created2011-03-28
dc.date.issued2013-02-18T08:08:29Z
dc.description.abstractThe traditional values and beliefs entered a stage of transition at the turn of the twentieth-century: new ideas appeared which challenged the accepted notions of womanhood, introducing the figure of the New Woman who rebelled against the confining patriarchal stereotypes. Situating Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900) in this context, I am going to explore how the two novels depict the transformation of conventional lifestyles and how they illustrate the radical transformation of female identity from the True Woman to the New Woman ideal. Moreover, the comparison of the novels will also reveal the differences in the two writers’ representations of women’s plight, as both of them express women’s confusion and anxiety about their situations. While Chopin’s novel presents a protagonist (Edna Pontellier) who tries to outgrow the restrictive pattern of married life; Dreiser portrays a single girl (Carrie Meeber) misdirecting her life in the urban world in the belief that she is on the path towards selffulfillment. The novels expose highly debated issues regarding women: roles, family, sexuality, work and the chance to achieve self-awareness.hu_HU
dc.description.courseamerikanisztikahu_HU
dc.description.degreeMschu_HU
dc.format.extent74hu_HU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/160016
dc.language.isoenhu_HU
dc.rights.accessiphu_HU
dc.subjectfemale identityhu_HU
dc.subjectnew womanhu_HU
dc.subjectSister Carriehu_HU
dc.subjectThe Awakeninghu_HU
dc.subject.dspaceDEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudomány::Összehasonlító irodalomtudományhu_HU
dc.titleDevelopment of Female Identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carriehu_HU
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