Written in 1920 and included in Katherine Mansfield’s short story collection The Garden-Party and Other Stories, “Miss Brill” narrates a day in the life of an aging spinster, Miss Brill, who perceives life as a play and is aware of… Read More ›
Katherine Mansfield
Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Je ne parle pas français
A pivotal story in Katherine Mansfield’s career, “Je ne parle pas français” is also a key modernist short story. The piece was composed over two weeks in the last year of World War I, at the time when Mansfield was… Read More ›
Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Published in The Garden Party and concerned, like the title story of the collection, with “the diversity of life and how we try to fit in everything, Death included” (Mansfield 1985, 259), this story was written one year before Katherine… Read More ›
Literary Criticism and Theory in the Twentieth Century
Twentieth-century literary criticism and theory has comprised a broad range of tendencies and movements: a humanistic tradition, descended from nineteenth-century writers such as Matthew Arnold and continued into the twentieth century through figures such as Irving Babbitt and F. R…. Read More ›
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