Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1+ (Bonus)

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15 October 2021

Episode 1 - The Story of an Hour 

We begin our wandering with the famous Chopin short story, exploring topics of reading aesthetically, freedom, tragic hamartia, female silencing, and some missteps in reading Victory.

“If freedom is not an absolute, then are alienation (Otherness) and ‘monstrous ideas’ always a ‘suspension of intelligent thought’?”

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CHAPTERS

1. Introduction: Chopin & “The Story of An Hour”
2. Reader-Response: Reading “Aesthetically”
3. Historicism: Train Wrecks and Contexts
4. Historicism: Published Versions and Original Texts
5. Modernism: Joyful IronyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More and Foolishness; Containers
6. Close Analysis: The “It” from the Window
7. Classical Thought: Tragedy; Hamartia
8. *Feminism: Thinking on Violence and Silence*
9. *Psych Theory: “Freedom from” and Alienation*
10. *Sociological Theory: Public & Private Grief; Privilege to Reflect*
11. *Structuralism: Semantic Intensionality; the Hourglass Structure*
12. *Marxism: Traps of Privilege; Bird in a Gilded Cage*
13. *Queer Theory: “Heart Trouble” and Silences*
14. *DeconstructionJacques Derrida is a founding voice. Since there is no knowl... More: Freedom in the Wild*
15. *Dialogics: Voices, Texts, and Readers*
16. *Poetry Link: De Maupassant: “Nuit de Neige”*
17. *New Sentiment: Our “possession of self-assertion”*
18. *Minority Criticism: Absence and Consequence*
19. *Philosophy Connections: Existentialism’s “Pour soi”*
20. *Post-Colonialism: Mitsein and Self-Determination*
21. *Critical Review: Karami and Zohdi’s Feminism*
22. *In Pop Culture: 1984’s Film*
23. *In the Classroom: Student Bodies and Silences*
24. *ToK: Mapping Intensionality*
25. Related Works: A Quick List
26. New Historicism: Authoring Chopin
27. Literary Mis-Allusions: Victory
28. Personal Reflection
29. Closing Credits

*Available to our members on Episode 1+ (the full bonus episode)

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CREDITS:

Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)

Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski

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MLA CITATION:

Chisnell, Steve. “Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’” Waywords Studio, 15 Oct. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/.