Wolff’s Critique of Chopin’s The Awakening Essays -- Chopin Awakening

Wolffs Critique of Chopins The Awakening The little case study to the novel establishes a definition of a lineament of vital response, and then gives as close an example that fits that mode of unfavorable judgmentBORING First, the book has these forms of criticism laid out contiguously, as if they occurred besides spatially and not temporally. This flattened and skewed representation of critical approaches, victorious an argument out of its con textbook (an academic debate) and uses it as if it were a pedagogical tool. Just as criticism in many ways takes the lifespan out of the text, by dissecting it and making it a part of an argument, the model critical approach takes the life out of criticism. It is interesting to see how the varied drive Studies in Contemporary Criticism are altered by the text they are describing. For example, I have one volume on depiction of an Artist as a Young Man, and another for Great Expectations, both(prenominal) of which demonstrate the exte nt to which the object of critique affects the critique itself, such that deconstructionism criticism in an intellectual vacuum is something different than when a prentice tries to apply it to a particular text, altering both the text as well as the principles of deconstruction. The Awakening gender criticism takes on a different feel from Great Expectation gender criticism all the same though they are informed by the same principles, because gender in the early Victorian Dickens is different than in the turn of the nose candy American Chopin. In this way the criticism co-constructs with the primary document something different than both the criticism and the original text. Such a syntheses have produced evoke and innovative ideas, refreshing and reviving works from the tombs of academia. Unfor... ... is also a government involving real becomings, an entire becoming clandestine. (A Thousand Plateaus 188)Finally, the sea is a joint trope for mother, and maternalthat from which life springs. We are presented with Edna running absent from Protestant society (the dynamo, the father) to Catholic Creole society (the earth-goddess transformed into the Madonna). She runs away from her father, and there is no mother for her to run towards except the archetypal sea. If these mythologic formations say anything, the novel says something about Ednas own lost mother. Is the tragedy of the book that this mother is never found even though Edna followed the path to the nonprogressive scent? Is the tragedy of the story Ednas mother died big(a) birth to Edna, leaving Edna with only one memory of her motherthe musty scent of childbirth? Does this inform her attitudes toward motherhood?