Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-236
Author(s):  
Laura Helyer
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Poetic Prose ◽  
The Village

This chapter discusses aspects of rhythm, poetic form, time and the archival in Bishop’s prose and is organised around a discussion of the ethics of the mother-daughter relationship in the autobiographical story, ‘In the Village.’ Bishop’s short stories are analysed in terms of poetic prose and as prose poems. This resonates with Katherine Mansfield’s lyrical, impressionistic experiments in the short story and her ideas about form and formlessness in narrative. Bishop’s interest in representations of time, memory and a modernist aesthetic in narrative prose are persuasively articulated in her key critical essays (‘Time’s Andromedas’, ‘Dimensions for a Novel’). The chapter ultimately proposes that Mansfield can be understood as a significant influence on Bishop’s prose style, helping her to determine her own original fictional ‘voice’ as well as her structural and thematic concerns in prose.

scholarly journals A SHORT STORY READING SECTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S LITERACY IN SD N 6 PANJER KEBUMEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Dwi Novitasari ◽  
Eka Fajriatul Janah ◽  
Muhamad Chamdani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Sentence Patterns ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
The Impact

<em>The goverment made changes to the Indonesian education curriculum of the education unit level curriculum into the curriculum of 2013. Changes in the curriculum in 2013 lies in the preparation of the RPP (Lesson Plan) and the ability of literacy. The emphasis on the preparation of the RPP has been resolved with the holding of training, but to literacy still unwell. One way to improve the literacy skills is through the reading of short stories. The reading of the short story aims to help improve reading skills and knowledge of sentence patterns, so it can be an idea to create an article. The focus on this study include: (1) The concept of reading a short story; (2) The impact of short story readings. These studies include: (1) The reading of short stories is an activity habituation to read a fictional narrative prose text .; (2) The impact resulting from the reading of short stories such as enhancing the knowledge, encourage the growth likes to read, and to foster the ability to write.</em>

scholarly journals Decoding the Thematic Imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nidhi Angurala
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Thematic Framework ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper deploys the methodology of textual analysis to re-read and undertake an exegesis of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Bliss” penned by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield. The exploration of the symbols and imagery that abound in the texts reveal and underscore the thematic framework of the short stories. While the colour, animal and food imagery add richness to the story of Bertha Mason in “Bliss”, the multifarious symbols are symptomatic of the protagonist’s mental make-up and the descent into madness of her creative propensity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.

Unreliable Third Person Narration? The Case of Katherine Mansfield

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Patrick Murphy ◽  
Kelly S. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Wayne Booth ◽  
The Voice

AbstractThe concept of an unreliable third-person narrator may seem a contradiction in terms. The very act of adopting a third-person stance to tell a story would appear to entail an acceptance of a basic need for truth-telling, a commitment to what Wayne Booth terms the implied author’s “norms of the work.” Nonetheless, in the essay that follows, three of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories – “A Cup of Tea” (1922), “Bliss” (1918) and “Revelations” (1920) – will be examined in order to demonstrate how the strategic suppression of the distinction between the voice of the narrator and that of the central character can lead to a strong sense of unreliability. In order to read such narratives effectively, the reader must reappraise the value of certain other stylistic elements, including the use of directives involved with directly quoted speech, seemingly minor discrepancies between adjacent sentences and, perhaps most importantly, the structure of the fiction itself. We contend that Mansfield’s use of this form of unreliable third-person fiction is her unique contribution to the short story genre.

Zacharia, Paul (1945--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanil V
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Village

Paul Zacharia, a short story writer, novelist, and essayist, introduced the notion of counter-modernity to Malayalam literature in the late 1960s. He rejected the self-definition of Western modernity and its Indian nationalist versions. Drawing upon the clarity of vernacular Biblical idioms and the intelligence of everyday rural life, Zacharia probed the fragile certainties of urban life, intellectual establishments, and religious orthodoxies. He acknowledged that ‘Jesus Christ, cinema, bars, friends, lovers, hens and dogs have given me stories.’ Zacharia was born in the village of Urulikunnam, near Kottayam, and published his first story, ‘Unni the Child’, in 1964. Zachariayude Kathakal, the collection of his short stories written up to the year 2000, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. Two of his novellas, Praise the Lord and Enthondu Visesham Pilathose? [What News, Pilate?], have been translated into English. Two short story collections are also available in English: Bhaskara Pattelar and Other Stories and Reflections of a Hen in Her Last Hour and Other Stories. Vidheyan [The Servile], a film that won best Malayalam film in 1993, was an adaptation of Zacharia’s story ‘Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum.’ Zacharia has been active in print media and publishing; he was one of the founders of the Asianet television network.

Seated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Sydney Janet Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
The United States ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
American Poet ◽  
John Middleton Murry

The writing of the American poet, fiction writer and critic, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) significantly affected the critical receptions of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. His personal encounters with them during his time of involvement in the production of the Athenaeum is reflected not only in his incisive reviews of their fiction, but in his own creative writing as well. His short stories and experimental memoir, Ushant, (1963) reveal the two women's differing forms of influence upon him. In his memoir, he portrays the relations between Woolf and Mansfield as representative of the ‘merciless warfare’ that prevailed in the London literary world in 1920. If his creative legacy from Woolf was stylistic and psychological, from Mansfield it was inspirational. He was in love with the spontaneity and life-enhancing vitality of her prose, her ‘genius’ for making her characters ‘real.’ The sense of an intuitive connection between himself and Mansfield underpins his imaginative efforts to recreate his encounters with her, as is exemplified most powerfully in his short story: ‘Your Obituary, Well Written,’ (1928) in which he creates a thinly veiled portrait of characters uncannily similar to Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry.

scholarly journals Oh, Mother, Who Art Thou? : The Heart of Maternal Darkness in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Anindita Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Traditional Assumption

Our culture assumes: No love is as great as that of a mother for her child. Motherhood has been perpetually associated with self-effacement and self-abnegation. Adrienne Rich while making a distinction between the actual lived experience of a mother and the institution of motherhood has argued that motherhood is a cultural construct and a far cry from the real experience of mothering. This article traces and examines representations of motherhood in the select short stories of Katherine Mansfield, in the light of Adrienne Rich’s theories in Of Woman Born. Much like Adrienne Rich, Mansfield discredits the traditional assumption that to be a mother is an essential pre-requisite to be a ‘real woman’. Mansfield’s women characters unleash a plurality of voices that aid the readers at viewing maternity as an ambiguous experience. Instead of romanticizing and idealizing the mother-daughter relationship, she offers a problematic connection between both the figures, often pitting them as rivals against each other. Her women characters progressively revolt from within the four walls of the household by their intermittent display of anger and deliberate attempts at failing to conform to the monolithic ideals of femininity.

scholarly journals GAYA KEPENGARANGAN GODI SUWARNA DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN MURANG-MARING

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Taufik Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Modern Form

This research aims to reveal the style of author Godi Suwarna in the short stories collection buku Murang-Maring. In the universe of Sundanese literature, the Godi’s writing style is a new thing that contradicts the general style of Sundanese literature that is realism. Godi grew up in a rural area, and later as an adult continued in an urban environment. His short stories are the collaboration and mixing between the city and the village, traditional and modern. The ideas that are raised into his work are also mostly reconstruct the traditional stories that already exist, be it from folklore, pantun stories, wayang stories, fairy tales and so forth into a new, more modern form in accordance with the will of the author. Godi and his works are dissected by using expressive studies that focus the discussion to the collection of short stories Murang-Maring and the character of Godi himself. Based on the results of the research, Godi is an author who is upset with the surrounding social circumstances. The clash between rules and freedom also greatly influences Godi's self in his works. Godi's short story works are like a container for aspiration and criticism. In addition, the influence of wayang is very visible in the short stories, either from the stroytelling style or borrowing the characters with his nyeleneh and unique style.AbstrakRiset ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap gaya pengarang Godi Suwarna dalam buku kumpulan cerpen Murang-Maring. Di jagat kesusastraan Sunda, gaya mengarang Godi adalah hal baru yang bertolak belakang dari gaya umum sastra Sunda yang beraliran realis. Godi dibesarkan di lingkungan pedesaan, dan kemudian setelah dewasa berlanjut di lingkungan perkotaan. Cerpen-cerpennya adalah kolaborasi dan percampuran antara kota dan desa, tradisional dan modern. Ide-ide yang diangkat ke dalam karyanya pun kebanyakan merekonstruksi cerita-cerita tradisional yang sudah ada, baik itu dari foklor, cerita pantun, cerita wayang, dongeng, dan sebagainya ke dalam bentuk baru yang lebih modern sesuai dengan kehendak pengarang. Godi dan karyanya dibedah dengan memakai kajian ekspresif yang memfokuskan pembahasan kepada kumpulan cerpen Murang-Maring dan sosok Godi sendiri. Berdasarkan hasil  penelitian, Godi termasuk pengarang yang gundah dengan keadaan sosial di sekitarnya. Benturan antara aturan dan kebebasan juga sangat memengaruhi diri Godi dalam karya-karyanya. Karya cerpen-cerpen Godi juga seperti wadah untuk menyalurkan aspirasi dan kritik. Selain itu, pengaruh wayang sangat kental terlihat dari cerpen-cerpennya, baik itu dari gaya penceritaannya maupun meminjam tokoh-tokoh dengan gayanya yang nyeleneh dan khas.

scholarly journals “Always Trembling on the Brink of Poetry”: Katherine Mansfield, Poet

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Kimber
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Annotated Edition ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
John Middleton Murry ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
A Minor

Today, Katherine Mansfield is well known as one of the most exciting and cutting-edge exponents of the modernist short story. Little critical attention, however, has been paid to her poetry, which seems a strange omission, given how much verse she wrote during the course of her life, starting as a very young schoolgirl, right up until the last months prior to her death in 1923. Even Mansfield devotees are not really familiar with any poems beyond the five or six that have most frequently been anthologised since her death, and few editions of her poetry have ever been published. Mansfield’s husband, John Middleton Murry, edited a slim volume, Poems, in 1923, within a few months of her death, followed by a slightly extended edition in 1930, and Vincent O’Sullivan edited another small selection, also titled Poems, in 1988. Unsurprisingly, therefore, critics and biographers have paid little attention to her poetry, tending to imply that it is a minor feature of her art, both in quantity and, more damagingly, in quality. This situation was addressed in 2016, when EUP published a complete and fully annotated edition of Mansfield’s poems, edited by myself and Claire Davison, incorporating all my recent manuscript discoveries, including a collection of 36 poems—The Earth Child—sent unsuccessfully by Mansfield to a London publisher in 1910. This discovery in 2015 revealed how, at the very moment when Mansfield was starting to have stories accepted for commercial publication, she was also taking herself seriously as a poet. Indeed, had the collection been published, perhaps Mansfield might now be celebrated as much for her poetry as for her short stories. Therefore, this article explores the development of Mansfield’s poetic writing throughout her life and makes the case for her reassessment as an innovative poet and not just as a ground-breaking short story writer.

scholarly journals Katherine Mansfield in Slovene translations

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Andrej Podbrežnik
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Second World

During her short life Katherine Mansfield wrote numerous short stories, which place her among the best authors of this genre in world literature. The au thor of this paper tries to establish the reception of Mansfield's work and the critics' response in Slovenia. First translations of her stories were published in various Slovene magazines and reviews after the Second World War. However, the most complete and artistically successful presentation of her work was prepared in 1963 when Jože Udovič published twenty-eight short stories written by this author under the title Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party. Udovič also contributed the introduction about the author and her work. The book was very well received in Slovenia not only by the reading public, but also by critics, who praised Mansfield and Udovič's translation as well. After that more than twenty years passed, before Katarina Mahnič translated Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Singing Lesson" in 1988. We can conclude that hopefully some new translations of Katherine Mansfield's stories will appear soon.

scholarly journals Speaking Silence in 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janka Kaščáková
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First World War ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
World War ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
First World

Detachment from meaningful movement in time; the gradual development of history disrupted by absurdity and the cruelty of the First World War; the wasteland of European civilization and the reduction of individuals into ghastly numbers; human existence no longer firmly attached with regard to meaning: all this, in Modernist texts, translates into both scattered bits and conflicted yet meaningful juxtapositions. To use T.S. Eliot’s famous line, literature becomes a “heap of broken images” and all authors wish to express this disruption and deal with it in their own particular way. One of the direct representations of the inability of writers to cope with contemporary reality is the fragmentation of the text, often accompanied by the frequent use of ellipses. This is especially noticeable in the works of the New Zealand Modernist Katherine Mansfield; her short stories build on what is said as much as on what is left unsaid; they make use of empty spaces bearing meaning, speaking silence- all this requires an active reader, drawn into the creation of the story. This paper discusses Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Daughters of the Late Colonel,” with an emphasis on the unexpressed, or implied, the use of ellipses and omissions; it analyzes their interactions with the content of the story; and concludes that what has been omitted is as important as what has been included.

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