Perspectival Strategies in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The essay focuses on the interplay between the authorial narrative instance and the internally focalized perspective that structures the internal movement of one of Kate Chopin’s most famous texts, “The Story of an Hour” (1894). Chopin’s perspectival choices offer a key to reflect upon the issue at the center of Chopin’s short story, namely, women’s freedom in a patriarchal society. The discrepancy between what the characters know and what readers know triggers a potentially ambivalent ethical and affective engagement which mirrors Chopin’s own positioning.
Author: Pia Masiero
Institution: Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405726939