ENGB34 Lecture Notes - Frame Story
Document Summary
Represent the role of woman in the 1890 culture. Pants, cigarette are ways to identify the new woman compared to the tradition woman of the time. A sudden awareness that you didn"t have before. Epiphany in araby where the boy realizes something very important. Spell white elf a story of hers that in a way features the new woman phenomenon. Story has a woman that works and lives by herself. The word spell and elf implies magic: the stories has two supernatural words in the tital. However the story is about mundane everyday live. A famous female author in the late 19th century. A periodical, convenient and easy for authors to publish stories. Has an interesting history in relation to other periodicals. A periodical is a magazine or journal which has relation to the current time. It consciously positions itself as a book and apart from other periodicals. It only came out as a hardcover 4 times a year.
