On Characteristics of the Plots in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

Aijing Zhang

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On Characteristics of the Plots in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

Aijing Zhang

Published in International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 9 May 2018 Accepted: 30 May 2018 Published: 18 June 2018

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Katherine Mansfield is a legend in the history of the modern British literature for her implicit writing style. She was regarded as one of the most prominent innovators and pioneers of English short stories. Most of her works are carefully organized in the structure, concentrating on creating the inner world of the characters instead of a clear beginning or tense conflicts, so as to invite readers to explore the subtle changes of the characters’ psychological world. There have been a large number of studies on the subjects like feminism, modernism, dream disillusionment, narrative style and rhetorical devices of her short stories, but only a few talk about the plot structure because there seems to be no clear boundaries between the beginning and the development, and the development and the ending. This thesis intends to and generalize the structural features of her short stories, including The Garden Party, Bliss, A Cup of Tea, An Ideal Family and so on, mainly from the following three aspects: the stream of consciousness, shifts of occasions, and the function of objects. It is found that there are some regularities in the settings of the beginnings and endings in her stories. And from the analysis of her short stories, it may help us learn more about what is artistic beauty and about how to design the story-telling process.

Published in	International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijsedu.20180602.12
Page(s)	33-36
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Katherine Mansfield, Stream of Consciousness, Shifts of Occasions, Function of Objects

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[3]	Katherine Mansfield. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Penguin Group, 2007.
[4]	Kobler, J. F. Katherine Mansfield: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
[5]	David Daiches. The Art of Katherine Mansfield. New Literary Values: Studies in Modem Literature, 1936.
[6]	Alpers, A. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford Lives, 1980.
[7]	Ian A. Gordon. Undiscovered Country: The New Zealand Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Longman Group, 1974.
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[9]	Jianing Chen. The Artistic Features of Mansfield's Short Stories. Journal of Capital Normal University, 1985.
[10]	Liyun Zhou. A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party. Overseas English, 2015.

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Aijing Zhang

College of Teacher Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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