Author: Ericka Koehler

“Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin is a short story that is set in Louisiana, in the southern United States. The story is about a young upper class married couple before the American Civil War, but it was written after it. “Désirée’s Baby” was written in 1892 and published in Vogue in 1893. It was later… Continue reading Realism Literature: Racism in Kate Chopin’s “Désirée’s Baby” by Ericka Koehler

The principles of the Feminist literary theory are based on “the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical ground (Ramya, 18).” Feminism proposes equality through the liberalism of women and opposition to the oppression, dependence and subordination of them. “Feminist thought and practice analyzes the production of literature and literary representation within the framework that… Continue reading Feminist Examination of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Ericka Koehler

Charles Simic is an American poet born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His childhood is full of traumatic events due to World War II. The war forced his family to emigrate to the United States. During his first years in the country, he lived in Chicago. He studied at New York University and later enlisted… Continue reading Charles Simic: “Late September” by Ericka Koehler