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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (supplement)
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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (supplement)
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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (Waywords)
1+ Bonus Episode
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (members)
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.
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 Irony 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. Deconstruction: 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)
- “Bird in a Gilded Cage” lyrics (pdf)
- “Story of an Hour” text (pdf)
- “Story of an Hour” text with annotations (pdf)
- Blog: Ode to Victory
- de Maupassant’s “Nuit de Neige” translation
- Irony – Some Examples worksheet (pdf)
- Irony and “Story of an Hour” – Ep. 1.2
- Karami and Zohdi – Story of An Hour Feminist Interpretation (pdf)
- Kate Chopin & Silences Teaching Plan (pdf)
- Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” – Episode 1
- Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” Full Episode 1+ (members)
- Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” – Ep. 1.1
- Related Readings – SofHour (pdf)
Kate Chopin
Author of “The Story of an Hour”
“Dream Of An Hour,” St. Louis Life
Reprint with changes from the Vogue original, 1895
“Dream Of An Hour,” Vogue
Original Vogue publication, 1894
1888 Georgia Train Wreck
From Harper’s Weekly, March 1988
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Chisnell, Steve. “Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’” Waywords Studio, 15 Oct. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/.
