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  1. Jun 11, 2024 · Katherine Mansfield (born October 14, 1888, Wellington, New Zealand—died January 9, 1923, Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France) was a New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry.

  2. 4 days ago · At first glance, there might seem to be few connections between Katherine Mansfield and her younger contemporary, Eileen Duggan, despite occasional critical efforts to link them within a tradition of women’s writing in New Zealand.

  3. Jun 24, 2024 · Katherine Mansfield was a master of the modern short story. She crafted precise pictures of individual moments and scenes, resulting in deft narratives that are as devastating as they are beautiful. While the early 20th century novel has received a significant amount of critical attention, the short story has been somewhat overlooked.

  4. 6 days ago · Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement.

  5. Jun 10, 2024 · She hears ‘something crying’, and the story ends. Loneliness, isolation and rejection are amongst some of the most common themes in Mansfield’s short stories. What makes ‘Miss Brill’ distinct is Mansfield’s presentation of the old lady’s illusory world as an ego-defensive process against emotional distress.

  6. Jun 24, 2024 · How does Katherine Mansfield use imagery to depict the garden setting in “Night-Scented Stock”? Mansfield creates a vivid nocturnal garden scene through visual and auditory imagery. The “milky night” and the moon “dancing over a tree” establish a dreamlike atmosphere.

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  8. Jun 14, 2024 · Observing Mansfield as an author who was at the time in many ways on the margins of English literature, this paper approaches her New Zealand stories from the theoretical framework offered by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of a ‘minor literature’.