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 ...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. Miss Brill is one of her short stories published in her collection of stories entitled The Garden Party and Other Stories （2007）, describing an afternoon in the life of a middle-aged spinster who visits the public park on a weekly basis, leading to her reassessment of her view of the world and the secular reality. Short as it is, it is really worth carful analysis and appreciation. This paper will mainly deal with the theme--alienation that the story conveys in two aspects： some obvious alienate elments in Miss Brill, in which some background information is provided; some less obvious alienation in Miss Brill, in which a detailed analysis is made into the story to reveal its alienation.展开更多
As a modernist short story writer in the 20 thCentury,Katherine Mansfield is well known for her exquisite writing style.Her masterpiece,Miss Brill can be viewed as a perfect combination of her seriousness of art and h...As a modernist short story writer in the 20 thCentury,Katherine Mansfield is well known for her exquisite writing style.Her masterpiece,Miss Brill can be viewed as a perfect combination of her seriousness of art and high techniques of literary creation,which is reflected in her poetic style of the language.This thesis illustrates the poetic style of Miss Brill from two aspects,the use of rhetorical devices,and the symbolic meanings of images,intending to reveal the aesthetic and realistic meaning of this fiction.展开更多
Point of view has been a big playground for study in fiction for about a century.Mansfield' s "Miss Brill" is featured by its successful use of points of view.This paper will discuss how Mansfield' s...Point of view has been a big playground for study in fiction for about a century.Mansfield' s "Miss Brill" is featured by its successful use of points of view.This paper will discuss how Mansfield' s choice of a particular point of view helps to communicate the central theme of the story.展开更多
As one of the best short story writers in Britain who ardently loved both music and poetry,Katherine Mansfield managed to add poetic and music beauty to story writing."Miss Brill"is perfected by her unique w...As one of the best short story writers in Britain who ardently loved both music and poetry,Katherine Mansfield managed to add poetic and music beauty to story writing."Miss Brill"is perfected by her unique writing style.Her poetic and musical language is applied in the story to strengthen the difficulty of understanding,prolong reader’s perception and achieve aesthetic effect.展开更多
文摘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. Miss Brill is one of her short stories published in her collection of stories entitled The Garden Party and Other Stories （2007）, describing an afternoon in the life of a middle-aged spinster who visits the public park on a weekly basis, leading to her reassessment of her view of the world and the secular reality. Short as it is, it is really worth carful analysis and appreciation. This paper will mainly deal with the theme--alienation that the story conveys in two aspects： some obvious alienate elments in Miss Brill, in which some background information is provided; some less obvious alienation in Miss Brill, in which a detailed analysis is made into the story to reveal its alienation.
文摘As a modernist short story writer in the 20 thCentury,Katherine Mansfield is well known for her exquisite writing style.Her masterpiece,Miss Brill can be viewed as a perfect combination of her seriousness of art and high techniques of literary creation,which is reflected in her poetic style of the language.This thesis illustrates the poetic style of Miss Brill from two aspects,the use of rhetorical devices,and the symbolic meanings of images,intending to reveal the aesthetic and realistic meaning of this fiction.
文摘Point of view has been a big playground for study in fiction for about a century.Mansfield' s "Miss Brill" is featured by its successful use of points of view.This paper will discuss how Mansfield' s choice of a particular point of view helps to communicate the central theme of the story.
文摘As one of the best short story writers in Britain who ardently loved both music and poetry,Katherine Mansfield managed to add poetic and music beauty to story writing."Miss Brill"is perfected by her unique writing style.Her poetic and musical language is applied in the story to strengthen the difficulty of understanding,prolong reader’s perception and achieve aesthetic effect.
