Semioses da condição feminina em ‘a história de uma hora’, de Kate Chopin

Abstract

Having in mind that Kate Chopin's narrative is permeated with discussions related to the condition of women in the 19th century, we analyze in this monograph, by means of Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics, how Kate Chopin in The story of an hour makes use of verbal signs surrounding the alleged death of Brently Mallard and the effective death of Mrs. Mallard. In this sense, we understand that semiotics acts not only as a way of understanding the implicit constructions of the text but also for the understanding of literary writing as a space of meanings, representations and debate of social issues.