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Katherine Mansfield, "Bliss"
BIOGRAPHY
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Biography
Katherine Mansfield: Short Story Moderniser A truly wonderful biography, packed with interesting anecdotes, photographs, and quotations. Since this comes from The New Zealand Edge, there is noticeable emphasis on Mansfield's connections to her country of birth.
Mansfield, Katherine An extensive biography from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, includes many photographs and a discussion of Mansfield's influence on later generations of New Zealand writers.
Time100: Katherine Mansfield A 1999 Time magazine article revisits Mansfield's life.
Whistling in the Dark A New York Times review of The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, a publication of Mansfield's personal writings that offers an intimate view of the writer's life and thoughts.
Works
"Bliss" and Other Stories E-text of all stories in the collection. Includes "Bliss," "Prelude," "Dill Pickle," and "Psychology."
"The Garden Party" and Other Stories E-text of all stories in the collection. Includes "The Garden Party," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," "Marriage a la Mode," and "Miss Brill."
In a German Pension E-text of all stories in the collection. Includes "Frau Brechenmacher attends a Wedding."
Katherine Mansfield Link to e-text of fifteen stories.
"Six Years After" This unfinished story is believed to be the last that Mansfield worked on before her death in 1923.
"The Fly" Full text online.
Selected Poetry of Katherine Mansfield Three poems online plus notes on her life and works.
Bibliography
Katherine Mansfield: Select Bibliography Lists all of Mansfield's writings plus an extensive list of secondary books and articles.
From A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology List of primary and secondary works related to Mansfield.
Literary and Artistic Context: Modernism
Modern Period: 1910-1945 Convenient lists in the following categories: Historical Background, Principles of Modernism, Characteristics of Modernism, Characteristics of Modern Writing.
Modernism and the Modern Novel A short essay that takes a critical look at the effects of modernism on reading and writing.
Literary Modernism, 1915-1945: An outline that includes a list of characteristics of modernism and the historical and philosophical influences on the movement.
Spiritual Modernism: Woolf on Joyce Although this short essay from Norton focuses on Virginia Woolf's assessment of James Joyce's Ulysses, it offers, in Woolf's words, a good description of stream of consciousness writing.
Modernism: A Power Point Presentation Slide presentation includes origins of modernism and effects on literature.
Historical Context
1920 Events A list of all sorts of world events that occurred in the year that "Bliss" was first published.
Illustrated London News, 1920 Extracted from the original issues of The Illustrated London News, this Web site lists key events for any given year followed by photographs and other illustrations from the original publications. Katherine Mansfield lived from 1888 to 1923; browse the years related to her times.
Interpretations
Mansfield and Woolf Study notes from Professor David Miall at the University of Alberta. Good explanation of the "free indirect discourse" point of view technique used by Mansfield. Also material on modernism and the possibility of a women's writing style.
Three Traces: Exploring Katherine Mansfield through Illness, Literary Impressionism, and Refigured Modernism Kurt Bullock, an instructor at Ball State University, examines two new critical works about Mansfield and evaluates the insights they offer into Mansfield's work.
"Monkey business: Darwin, displacement, and literary form in Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss'": This scholarly essay from Studies in Short Fiction examines the themes of sexuality and evolution to show how the story works on many levels at once, as "satire or allegory, realism, romance, and myth."
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