"The struggle towards self-fulfillment in comparative perspective: The theme of woman's awakening in three realist novels--Gustave Flaubert's ""Madame Bovary"", Kate Chopin's ""The Awakening"", and Arishima Takeo's ""Aru Onna"""

The struggle for self-fulfillment is a major element in three realistic novels: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), and Arishima Takeo's Aru onna (A Certain Woman) (1919). In these three novels, romantic female characters of the bourgeois class try to free themselves from the confinement of their society and tradition and try to find a new feminine identity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative and World Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Yonogi, Reiko

Contributors dc:contributor

• Palencia-Roth, Michael

• Literature, Comparative
• Literature, Asian
• Literature, Romance
• Women's Studies
• Literature, American

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Yonogi, Reiko

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9011084
(UMI)AAI9011084

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20017