A Study on Katherine Anne Porter’s Short Stories and Narrative Techniques

Katherine Anne Porter is a prominent figure in American literary history,particularly excelling in the realm of short stories as a novelist and stylist.This paper studies her short stories,combined with her growth and life experience,from the revolutionary independence of youth to middle-aged female consciousness to the old age of home-sick and miss to relatives,Katherine Anne Porter reveals a sense of loneliness and desire.Her exquisite writing style,agile language,psychological character portrait,gives a picture of the specific history and social changes under her thoughts and life insight.

A lamp In The House, a lamp in the heart——Katherine Mansfield and her The Doll's House

"When dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll's house." There are three girls in the Burnells , one is Isabel---the eldest sister, the second one is Lottie, and the third one is Kezia. Kazia is the heroine of the story. When the marvellous house stood in the garden, the Burnell children sounded as though they were in despair.

On the Modernistic Themes in Katherine Mansfield’s At the Bay

Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.

Bedouin farms in the Saint Katherine mountainous area(South Sinai,Egypt)

This study aims to assess the natural and cultivated plant species in 26 Bedouin farms in Saint Katherine Protectorate(SKP),identify their soil and water characteristics,and assess the suitability of these farms for the cultivation of some wild medicinal plants.The farms were selected to represent wide wadis with deep sand and clay deposits,gorge-like wadis covered with rock fragments of different sizes,spot-like oases,and the Al Q’aa Plain.Using TWINSPAN(two-way indicator species analysis)and DCA(detrended correspondence analysis)techniques,the 26 farms were classified into 5 groups(Ⅰ-Ⅴ)based on their floristic composition of wild plants.These groups reflect an elevation gradient among the farms above sea level from a mean of 119 m to a mean of1,865m.A total of 73 wild species were recorded,with47 in groupⅡ(500-1,000 m)and 25 in group V(>1,700 m).The common target species were Artemisia judaica,Acacia tortilis subsp.raddiana,Origanum syriacum subsp.sinaicum and Varthemia montana(34.6%-26.9%).The cultivated speciesnumbered 25,with 17 in groupⅡ(500-1,000 m) andⅡin groupⅣ(1,500-1,700 m).The common fruit trees were olive,grape,fig,apple,palm,almond,apricot and pomegranate(73.0%-42.3%).Based on the soil characteristics,13 farms belong to soil class 2that describes good soils with moderate limitations,and 12 belong to soil class 3 that describes moderately good soils,which can be used regularly for crops after proper treatment.

Narrative Technique in Katherine Anne Porter’s Old Morality and Noon Wine

In the first half of the 20th century, a great number of modernism literary works emerged. Katherine Ann Porter,a famous short story writer and stylist, has positive thoughts and keen insights, and her unique artistic features inher works are innovative and attractive. Her works also have a good reputation both at home and abroad. This paperselects Porter’s famous collection Pale Horse, Pale Rider including Old Morality and Noon Wine to analyze andexplore their narrative technique.

Katherine Mansfield＇s Art of Changing Masks in ＂Je ne parle pas frangais＂

In a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 8 August 1931, eight years after Katherine Mansfield＇s death, Virginia Woolf confides that she ＂gave up＂ reading her literary rival＇s stories ＂because of their cheap sharp sentimentality＂. Woolf＇s observation invites us to question： is Mansfield a mere sentimentalist or is her characterisation technique misunderstood？ The first section of this paper demonstrates that attributing Mansfield＇ works as ＂sentimental＂ is erroneous since Mansfield＇s strategy is to change the masks of her characters within her stories, revealed in her letters and journal entries. Following the first section of this paper, I aim to explore how Mansfield extends this strategy of changing masks in daily life to her fictional characters in ＂Je ne parle pas fran^ais＂ （1918） by equipping them with different types of masks--speech and facial expressions, gender, and animality--to respond to changes in their situations and toward the characters around them. Particularly important to this exploration are Joan Riviere＇s insights into gender in her article, ＂Womanliness as Masquerade＂, Michael Goldman＇s theory of masks in acting in his The Actor＇s Freedom： Toward a Theory of Drama and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari＇s concept of ＂becoming-animal＂ in KaJka.＂ Towards a Minor Literature.

A Comment on Katherine Mansfield＇s A Dill Pickle

Katherine Mansfield is a world famous woman master of short stories in English literature. Her stories are sensitive revelations of human behaiour in quite ordinary situations, through which we can glimpse a powerful, and sometimes cruelly pessimistic view of life. A Dill Pickle is one of her short stories published in 1917, describing the encounter between a young woman and a young man who have been lovers six years ago and their lost love and changes over the years. Short as it is, it is really worth our earful analysis and appreciation. This paper will comment on this short story from the following two aspects： a commont on the theme of the story; a comment on the writing technique of the story. The paper conludes that romantic love is dependent upon circumstances and the convergence of certain character traits at a particular time.

Interior Monologue in Katherine Mansfield's Two Short Stories

Katherine Mansfield is a central figure in the development of the modern short story.Among modernist techniques of novels in the 20^(th) century, interior monologue plays a significant role.Katherine Mansfield was the first writer to use it consciously as a literary device.Her frequent and skillful use of interior monologue not only makes her works more unique and more attractive but also leaves a deep influence upon many writers.This paper mainly introduces interior monologue in her two famous short stories——The Daughters of the Late Colonel and Life of Ma Parker,in order to make readers have a better appreciation of Mansfield’s flexible use of interior monologue and comprehend her love and hatred towards society and her contemporaries.

Language Features in Katherine Mansfield's “The Garden-Party”

This paper analyzes the features of language in"The Garden-Party"of Katherine Mansfield from three aspects of sentencestructure, word selection and characters' discourse. A large number of examples indicate Katherine Mansfield's language in the shortfiction creates a poetic imagery; moreover, the author's words depicting things and portraying figures have a great influence on the ex-pression of the theme and characterization of the short story.

Behind Asia’s upcoming legal hub Q&A with Katherine Yap,Chief Executive,Maxwell Chambers

Tell us about Maxwell Chambers and its expansion plans.The year ahead will be exciting for us as we are expanding our premises to occupy the adjacent conserved building at 28 Maxwell Road,now named Maxwell Chambers Suites.The expansion will add 120,000 square feet of floor space and triple our current size.This will help to support the growth of dispute resolution institutions in Singapore and capture more opportunities

Trauma and Redemption: “She” in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

This paper examines the excellent short story The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter,an American 20th century female writer.It is found that the novel uses the stream-of-consciousness narrative method,through the multi-level communication between the external objective world and the internal subjective world,and between the third-person narrator and the first-person reflector,to describe the physical trauma suffered by Ellen,and the mental trauma of being“jilted”for four times in her life.This paper will explore how she bravely and strongly faces the reality,and changes her destination of“plenty of girls get jilted”.Based on the trauma perspective to analyze the image of Ellen Weatherall,enlightenment can be given to contemporary people.

Mycogenic Silver Nanoparticles From Endophytic Trichoderma atroviride with Antimicrobial Activity

There is an increasing interest in developing nanoparticles with diverse biologic activities.To this end,we prepared 10 to 15 nm silver nanoparticles(AgNP)from native isolates of Trichoderma atroviride.Within this study,endophytic fungi hosted four medicinal plants in Saint Katherine Protectorate,South Sinai,Egypt have been isolated by surface sterilization technique on four isolation media.Ten species,based on their frequency of occurrence,out of twenty recovered taxa were tested for their capability to synthesize extracellular AgNPs.Trichoderma atroviride hosted Chiliadenus montanus was found to be the best candidate for the production of mycogenic AgNPs among all examined species.The mycosynthesized AgNPs were compared with chemically synthesized and characterized using Ultraviolet-visible(UV-vis)spectroscopy,Raman spectroscopy,X-ray diffraction(XRD)and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy(HRTEM)techniques.The HRTEM result showed the distribution of spherical AgNPs ranging from 10 to 15 nm.Trichoderma atroviride isolate was subjected to sequencing for confirmation of phenotypic identification.The internal transcribed spacer(ITS)1-5.8 s-ITS2 rDNA sequences obtained were compared with those deposited in the GenBank Database and registered with accession number MH283876 in the NCBI Database.Antibacterial,anticandidal and antifungal effects of chemically and mycosynthesized AgNPs were examined at various concentrations in vitro against six pathogenic bacteria and 4 pathogenic fungi by agar well diffusion technique.Standard antibiotics;Gentamicin,Amoxicillin,Clotrimazole,and Nystatin at 5μg/disk were taken as positive controls,while 5%DMSO was used as the negative control.Our data revealed that the application of mycogenic AgNPs at a concentration of 100 ppm resulted in maximum inhibition of pathogenic bacteria and fungi.These data suggest that AgNPs from native isolates of Trichoderma atroviride(MH283876)offer a source of rapid synthesis of eco-friendly,economical biomaterials that show antimicrobial activities.

An Analysis of Binary Oppositions in The Garden Party

The Garden Party is one of the major short fictions of famous female writer Katherine Mansfield. In this work,the writer makes a profound reflection on the inequality in differentsocial classes and the truth of life. This paperwill focus on the research method of binary opposition. Through the study of binary oppositions in the text, thedeep themes and meanings will be clearly revealed.

The Imprisoned Minds:On The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist.This paper is a multiangle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel.In the episodic story,Katherine depicts two sisters' deplorable life over the course of the week after their father died.This paper starts with the outline of the story,and discusses the narrative order,language features,the title,the opening sentence and the ending of it.It is found that under the seemingly ordinary plots,the two spinsters' incapability,timidity and loss of identity are presented.Thus,the essence of the story is revealed:the female characters are under strong patricentric control and their minds are actually imprisoned.And the portrayals of the sisters' captivity in the sense of spirit imply that Katherine's potential appeal of female spiritual emancipation.

A Study of "Miranda Saga" as an Initiation Story

"Miranda Saga" is targeted as an intiation stroy. The typical general plot mode distinguishes this genre from other literary forms.Predicted on the archetypal theories, Rui Yuping summarizes the plot mode of initiation stories as follows: innocence -disillusionment -epiphany, which has been successfully applied to some classic novels, such as Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and J.D.Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, etc. Porter's "Miranda Saga" follows this general mode thus demonstrating it as a good illustration ofinitiation stories. In the first place, it extends the application and content of initiation stories. In the second place, it provides a new point of view for the study of Porter.

The Feminist Consciousness in The Garden Party

Feminist movement reaches its climax in the first two decades of the 20th century.There are many female novelists in that time and Mansfield is one of them.Most of her novels are full of feminist consciousness,and The Garden Party is a special one.The characters in the story are different from other story.The author describes how the society and its spokesman Mrs.Sheridan restrain the nature of Laura in detail.The author uses Laura to hint the current situation of women.

Kezia's Consciousness and Unconsciousness in The Doll's House

The Doll's House is one of the most famous representatives of Katherine Mansfield. She makes use of simple words to tell the story, but she vividly depicts the reality that the discrimination to the poor still exists. This phenomenon influences not only the world of adult but also the world of children. Kezia is the protagonist in The Doll's House. She is different from other members in her family. Although she is influenced by the canons in the adult world, she is not totally assimilated by these invisible principles. Kezia's consciousness and unconsciousness play important roles in indicating Katherine Mansfield's attitude towards the discrimination which she doesn't express directly. By analyzing Kezia's these two aspects in her mind, people's attention to the poor can be called and people's kindness and sympathy to them can be aroused.

A Study on the Symbolism in The Garden Party

The object of this research focuses on exploring the writing techniques of Katherine Mansfield's short stories. The paper uses illustration and contrast analysis to discuss symbolism in Mansfield's masterpiece The Garden Party. The main contention includes: The symbolic meaning of the"garden party"itself, the symbols of the two worlds(the world of"garden party"and the world of"lane"), the image of the main characters, the representative objects and the implied meaning of the ending. It can be concluded that the"life and death"is the story's theme which has a profound significance of reality through the young girl Laura's process of maturing.

On the Useof Interior Monologueand Narrated M onologue in The Jilting of Gr anny Weather all

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is one of Katherine Anne Porter’s most famous and successful short stories which shows her use of the stream-of-consciousness techniques substantially.This thesis tries to focus on the use of interior monologue and narrated monologue in this story especially.