Katherine Mansfield and literary impressionism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gunsteren, Julia van
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1990.
Subjects:	Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923 > Criticism and interpretation. Impressionism. Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923 > Critique et interprétation. Impressionnisme (Littérature) Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923. Mansfield, Katherine > 1888-1923 Impressionismus Literatur Mansfield, Katherine. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Short stories.

Table of Contents:

Impressionism in painting
A chronological survey of the use of the term literary impressionism
Some basic aesthetics of literary impressionism. The perception of reality. Light and atmosphere. Change. Space and time. The act of becoming in a momentary fragment
Mansfield's literary impressionism in her scrapbooks, journals, letters and reviews. Life and art. Art and history. Defeat of the personal. Intuition. Emotion. Empathy. Epiphany. Atmosphere. Oblique. Structure. Fragments
Mansfield's literary impressionism in her short stories
Narrative methods : restriction in parallax. The narrator. Free indirect discourse. Mansfield and FID. The extra-diegetic narrator. Parallax : restriction and irony. The homo-diegetic narrator
Themes : direct and indirect. Sarcastic criticism. The child's world. The wish for individuality. Lonliness. The snail underneath the leaf. Life and death. The flight of time. Illusion and limited experience. Relative insignificance and an indifferent universe. Isolation. Nature
Structure : a flash of perception. Juxtaposition of setting, events, characters and ideas. The enclosure : technique. Details. Openings, endings
Characterisation : shadowy protagonists. Descriptive epithets. Action and dialogue
Images : evocative patterns. Vague, oblique. Concatenation. Fusion. Synechdoche. Nature. Objects. Sensory experiences in blurring outlines. Colours. Action. Characterisation. Images or symbols?