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

Wolffs Critique of Chopins The Awakening The precise case study to the novel establishes a definition of a type of critical response, and then gives as close an example that fits that mode of criticismBORING First, the book has these forms of criticism laid break contiguously, as if they occurred alone spatially and not temporally. This flattened and skewed representation of critical approaches, taking an argument out of its context (an academic debate) and uses it as if it were a pedagogical tool. Just as criticism in many ways takes the life 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 different Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism atomic number 18 altered by the text they are describing. For example, I hasten one volume on Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and another for Great foretastes, both of which demonstrate the finish to which the object of c ritique affects the critique itself, such that deconstruction criticism in an intellectual vacuum is something different than when a scholar tries to apply it to a special(a) 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 even though they are informed by the same principles, because gender in the early Victorian Dickens is different than in the turn of the century 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 exciting and innovative ideas, refreshing and reviving works from the tombs of academia. Unfor... ... is also a politics involving real becomings, an entire becoming clandestine. (A Thousand Plateaus 188)Finally, the sea is a mutual trope for beget, and maternalthat from which life springs. We are presented with Edna ru nning away 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 mythic 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 trail to the musty scent? Is the tragedy of the story Ednas mother died giving birth to Edna, leaving Edna with only one memory of her motherthe musty scent of childbirth? Does this inform her attitudes toward motherhood?