Reclaiming the Female Suicide Narrative: Rebirth, a Plunge, and the Absurd

This thesis looks at female suicide in literature from the 1890s to 1970s in the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. Looking at these female-penned novels in comparison the canon of Western literature, they all clearly indicate...

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Main Author:	Wax, Shelby T
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Published:	Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
Subjects:	Suicide Women Narrative English Literature English Language and Literature
Online Access:	http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/822 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1910&context=scripps_theses

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spelling	ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-scholarship.claremont.edu-scripps_theses-19102016-05-29T15:25:08Z Reclaiming the Female Suicide Narrative: Rebirth, a Plunge, and the Absurd Wax, Shelby T This thesis looks at female suicide in literature from the 1890s to 1970s in the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. Looking at these female-penned novels in comparison the canon of Western literature, they all clearly indicate a change in the treatment of female protagonists suffering from loss. In The Awakening, suicide is represented as a rebirth. In Mrs. Dalloway, the protagonist suffers from a fragmentation of the self. In Play It As It Lays, the protagonist finds life through the Absurd. 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/822 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1910&context=scripps_theses © 2016 Shelby T. Wax default Scripps Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont Suicide Women Narrative English Literature English Language and Literature
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description	This thesis looks at female suicide in literature from the 1890s to 1970s in the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. Looking at these female-penned novels in comparison the canon of Western literature, they all clearly indicate a change in the treatment of female protagonists suffering from loss. In The Awakening, suicide is represented as a rebirth. In Mrs. Dalloway, the protagonist suffers from a fragmentation of the self. In Play It As It Lays, the protagonist finds life through the Absurd.
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Reclaiming the Female Suicide Narrative: Rebirth, a Plunge, and the Absurd

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