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Katherine Mansfield

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 13 1888
Died
0808 01 19231923
Website
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing.

Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world.

Nevertheless, Mansfield was a New Zealand writer - she could not have written as she did had she not gone to live in England and France, but she could not have done her best work if she had not had firm roots in her native land. She used her memories in her writing from the beginning, people, the places, even the colloquial speech of the country form the fabric of much of her best work.

Mansfield's stories were the first of significance in English to be written without a conventional plot. Supplanting the strictly structured plots of her predecessors in the genre , Mansfield concentrated on one moment, a crisis or a turning point, rather than on a sequence of events. The plot is secondary to mood and characters. The stories are innovative in many other ways. They feature simple things - a doll's house or a charwoman. Her imagery, frequently from nature, flowers, wind and colours, set the scene with which readers can identify easily.

Themes too are universal: human isolation, the questioning of traditional roles of men and women in society, the conflict between love and disillusionment, idealism and reality, beauty and ugliness, joy and suffering, and the inevitability of these paradoxes. Oblique narration includes the use of symbolism - the doll's house lamp, the fly, the pear tree - hinting at the hidden layers of meaning. Suggestion and implication replace direct detail.

Katherine Mansfield

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 13 1888
Died
0808 01 19231923
Website
Go to Website
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing.

Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world.

Nevertheless, Mansfield was a New Zealand writer - she could not have written as she did had she not gone to live in England and France, but she could not have done her best work if she had not had firm roots in her native land. She used her memories in her writing from the beginning, people, the places, even the colloquial speech of the country form the fabric of much of her best work.

Mansfield's stories were the first of significance in English to be written without a conventional plot. Supplanting the strictly structured plots of her predecessors in the genre , Mansfield concentrated on one moment, a crisis or a turning point, rather than on a sequence of events. The plot is secondary to mood and characters. The stories are innovative in many other ways. They feature simple things - a doll's house or a charwoman. Her imagery, frequently from nature, flowers, wind and colours, set the scene with which readers can identify easily.

Themes too are universal: human isolation, the questioning of traditional roles of men and women in society, the conflict between love and disillusionment, idealism and reality, beauty and ugliness, joy and suffering, and the inevitability of these paradoxes. Oblique narration includes the use of symbolism - the doll's house lamp, the fly, the pear tree - hinting at the hidden layers of meaning. Suggestion and implication replace direct detail.

Books from Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party and Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

4.1/5 ( ratings)

50 Great Short Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Miss Brill

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Bliss & Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Selected Stories

4/5 ( ratings)

In a German Pension: 13 Stories

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Fly

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Prelude

3.7/5 ( ratings)

50 Greatest Short Stories

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Uns e Outros: Contos Espelhados

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

3.8/5 ( ratings)

At the Bay

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Classic Womens Short Stories

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Piccola guida tascabile agli animali pericolosi in letteratura. Ovvero la zoologia come espediente per la letteratura

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Mr. and Mrs. Dove

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Best of Women's Short Stories 1

3.2/5 ( ratings)
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