Unit 5  The Garden Party

I. About Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923 )
* A prominent modernist writer of short fiction ; a forerunner in the use of stream-of-consciousness
* Born and brought up in colonial New Zealand
* Left for Great Britain when she was 19
* Close friend of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
* Focus on moments of disruption and frequently open
   rather abruptly
* Best-known stories: "The Garden Party", “Bliss”, "The
   Daughters of the Late Colonel" and “The Fly”
* Died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

II. The Theme:
 * Class consciousness: luxury and vanity of the upper  class; miserable and pitiable state of the lower class

III. Structure of the story
         Written in the modernist mode, without a set structure; depending on incident rather than plot; “to squeeze significance out of the apparently commonplace, trivial things”

           Her use of image and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new without seeming forced

       IV. Two Styles of Short Story:

Guy de Maupassant & Anton Chekhov: exciting story, compact plot, cool  observation, clear moral and unusual ending VS fragmentary events, casual plot, impressions of life, stream of consciousness;
       O. Henry (the U.S.), Somerset Maugham, Edgar Allen Poe (following   Maupassant)   VS  Katherine Mansfield (following Chekhov), Rudyard Kipling (considered the first  great exemplar of the English short story), Ernest   Hemingway (the U. S.), William Faulkner (the U.S.) and others

I. AboutKatherineMansfield (1888 – 1923 )

*A prominent modernist writer of short fiction; a forerunner in the use of stream-of-consciousness

*Born and brought up in colonial New Zealand

*Left for Great Britain when she was 19

*Close friend of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

*Focus on moments of disruption and frequently open

  rather abruptly

*Best-known stories: "The Garden Party", “Bliss”, "The

  Daughters of the Late Colonel" and “The Fly”

*Died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

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I. AboutKatherineMansfield (1888 – 1923 )

*A prominent modernist writer of short fiction; a forerunner in the use of stream-of-consciousness

*Born and brought up in colonial New Zealand

*Left for Great Britain when she was 19

*Close friend of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

*Focus on moments of disruption and frequently open

  rather abruptly

*Best-known stories: "The Garden Party", “Bliss”, "The

  Daughters of the Late Colonel" and “The Fly”

*Died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

boutKatherineMansfield (1888 – 1923 )

*A prominent modernist writer of short fiction; a forerunner in the use of stream-of-consciousness

*Born and brought up in colonial New Zealand

*Left for Great Britain when she was 19

*Close friend of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

*Focus on moments of disruption and frequently open

  rather abruptly

*Best-known stories: "The Garden Party", “Bliss”, "The

  Daughters of the Late Colonel" and “The Fly”

*Died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.