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. ...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.展开更多
As Mansfield’s representative masterpiece,The Garden Party contains her critique on the bourgeoisie.This essay argues that Laura Sheridan is assimilating into the bourgeoisie,taking up Mrs.Sheridan’s role as a matri...As Mansfield’s representative masterpiece,The Garden Party contains her critique on the bourgeoisie.This essay argues that Laura Sheridan is assimilating into the bourgeoisie,taking up Mrs.Sheridan’s role as a matriarch,while she is struggling with the waking sympathies on working class.By depicting the process of assimilating,along with the interference of aesthetics and politics,Mansfield reveals her critique on the bourgeoisie which shows indifference towards the lower class.展开更多
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 indic...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.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘As Mansfield’s representative masterpiece,The Garden Party contains her critique on the bourgeoisie.This essay argues that Laura Sheridan is assimilating into the bourgeoisie,taking up Mrs.Sheridan’s role as a matriarch,while she is struggling with the waking sympathies on working class.By depicting the process of assimilating,along with the interference of aesthetics and politics,Mansfield reveals her critique on the bourgeoisie which shows indifference towards the lower class.
文摘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.
