Self-study
P1
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Intro Topic ·
Chopin's literary development
Background ·
Chopin grew up with sentimental novels
Features of sentimental novels.
Intro Group ·
Local Colorists (L.C.)
Chopin initially modeled her work on local colorists. Who were they?
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L.C. Social Context ·
Expanding opportunities for women
Local colorists liked that traditional "women's culture" was dissolving.
L.C. Attitude ·
Local colorists neutrally observed these changes
L.C. Attitude Change ·
Local colorists mourn the loss of "women's culture"
Illustrate L.C. Attitude ·
House as female nurturing, etc.
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Contrast to L.C. ·
Chopin writes about different subjects
Loneliness, isolation, frustration... not traditional "women's culture."
Similar to L.C. ·
Chopin uses the same conventions
Callback to "scientific detachment" of the L.C. to tell melodramatic tales
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Evolution ·
Chopin discards L.C. in favor of New Women (N.W.)
Moved past L.C.'s nostalgia (for "women's culture"). Modeled later work on N.W.
N.W. Details ·
Innovation in form and content
Unlike both sentimental novels and L.C.'s short stories, N.W. explores fantasy; parable; different worlds; and uses impressionistic methods to explore female consciousness
The Awakening ·
Took N.W. approach further
Used impressionistic methods to render the female consciousness.
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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Strongly supported. As the local colorists became focused on the disappearance of “women’s culture,” they
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Unsupported. Chopin adopted this tendency because it allowed her to avoid “
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Unsupported. There’s no indication that the New Women were inspired by the local colorists, and nothing suggests that Chopin thought they were. The New Women were just the next group to catch Chopin’s attention after the local colorists.
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Unsupported. Chopin didn’t have any issue with their focus on regional life. Rather, her problem with them was their
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Anti-supported. Chopin used their conventions of