Katherine Mansfield's Modernist Innovations

The short story is always rigid and the dimensions of the basic plot are concentrated on the development of narrow plots and characters, so it is always considered a conservative form of literature. However, if writers are different, different experiments will be done in short stories. This is especially true when considering the modernist movement. In particular, modernist writer Catherine Mansfield certainly knows the possibilities of a short story format, as evidenced by Mansfield's richest short story "Garden Party and Other Stories".

Mansfield was recognized as a "modern short story writer" and created several unique modernist concepts ("Catherine Mansfield"). Mansfield led the modernist tendency to put that role "inner meditation" in her story ("Catherine Mansfield"). She is also responsible for modernist concern about Epiphany of the changing living character. The goal of Mansfield is to break the convention by writing a "ruthless" story that character experiences self-recognition and whose practice is still largely revealed ("Catherine Mansfield"). This is the case of "Garden Party". When she left joy her family was at home on a hill, Laura fell down in honor of the family of dead workers in the lower slums like Persephone. Laura is mature, but the insights generated by experience are not obvious.

Most of Katherine Mansfield 's biography and criticism focused on what he had discovered and wrote after leaving New Zealand in 1908. Mansfield's life and work are seen as a contemporaryistic paradigm of artists who grew up in rural societies like James Joyce's Stephen Dadels from the family. Please get out of the world of the country and go to "reality" which turns into art. In this story, Mansfield's text is produced after experiencing pain, experienced pain, and understanding of the great world. Looking back on the small world that is left behind, it is a product of the rejection of regional living restrictions by artists.

As a modernist writer, Katherine Mansfield developed a new way to observe, interpret and document the world around her. Her short story shows her determination to remove the wise, authoritarian, almost monopolistic, male-led narrative form of the previous generation and write it in such a way as to express her emotions and responses directly. . Mansfield is not a political writer, but her story is rooted in the social, cultural and political turmoil of her era.