Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier: Profile of bipolar disorder
| dc.contributor.author | Halydier, Susan | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Bridges, Phyllis | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Greer, Russell | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-07T20:54:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-07T20:54:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/15553 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Feminist criticism | |
| dc.subject | Bipolar II Disorder | |
| dc.title | Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier: Profile of bipolar disorder | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier has been the subject of considerable psychological and feminist criticism in the last thirty years. Psychological scholarship focuses on Edna's losses suffered during her childhood and on the unconscious processes of her mind to explain her adult behavior. Feminist scholarship also looks at childhood issues, but it focuses primarily on Edna's patriarchal marriage and Victorian society as the creator of her personality and lifestyle. Neither of these critical perspectives adequately explains many seemingly irresolvable issues. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the psychological illness Bipolar II Disorder affects Edna's thoughts and behavior throughout the novel. The diagnosis also connects psychological and feminist criticism, augments and enhances them, and challenges some of the current scholarship by introducing new behavioral motivations. | |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Arts and Sciences | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |