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Innovatory Devices of Style in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss", 2000.
An evaluation of the importance of innovatory devices of style observable in Katherine Mansfield’s "Bliss" as an example of Modernist literature.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, £ 25.95
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This essay explores and evaluates Katherine Mansfield's literary style with reference to her short story Bliss. It discusses the ways in which Bliss demonstrates her desire to break with the past and experiment with new methods of writing. The paper evaluates the story as an example of Modernist literature and reviews Mansfield 's importance in the Modernist movement. The paper also provides a detailed analysis of Mansfield's original and distinctive delivery of the short story.
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"An important figure in the modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield was a highly experiential writer who sought to find new ways of representing the world. The beginning of the twentieth century was a time of terrific change due to technological advances, scientific theories and capitalism. The First World War compounded this disturbance and literally shattered the universal values which held society together. Society was left fragmented and disillusioned and the Modernists felt that the traditional mode of representing the world in literature, specifically realism, was outdated and no longer appropriate. Mansfield 's short story Bliss, 1918, demonstrates the desire to break with the past and experiment with new methods of writing which would express this transformed society more aptly."
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Katherine Mansfield and Women, 2003.
A discussion on women's status and sexuality in three of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper looks at three of Katherine Mansfield's short stories: "Bliss", "Je Ne Pane Pas Francais" and "Life of Ma Parker". It examines Mansfield's style, sense of realism and themes and her psychological understanding of issues confronting women.
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Katherine Mansfield, 2002.
An analysis of the theme of lonliness in five of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 18.95
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This essay briefly discusses five short stories of New Zealand author, Katherine Mansfield, including "Mrs. Brill," "The Doll House," "Marriage a la Mode," "The Garden Party," and "The Woman at the Store." The essay specifically discusses the common theme of loneliness in each of the stories.
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Desire and Sexuality in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories, 2002.
This paper looks at Katherine Mansfield's short stories and the ways in which they portray the nature of sexuality in the early twentieth century.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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The writer discusses sexual symbolism, human behaviour and foreshadowing in these short stories. The paper explores the impact sexuality had on society, and the ways in which society affected women in relation to sexuality.
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"Almost to the end of the text her mysterious feeling of Bliss, for which she finds no outlet, drives Bertha. Mansfield explains this Bliss to the reader through the nature of Berthas actions, Bertha transfers her energy from arranging fruit, to tending her daughter but neither creative nor motherly actions can relieve her. Her duties as mother, housewife and decorator are not enough to fulfil her. Signs of sexuality materialize in this scene. The bowl of fruit sits full and ripe, 'stained' with pink as a symbol of fertility as well as temptation. The grapes still covered in bloom remain untouched, as Bertha is sexually unawakened. Bertha looses herself within the image of the fruit and its sensual nature, yet jerks herself back into reality. She contradicts the earlier sensual imagery with a superficial comment on the carpet. This pattern of indulging in her sexuality and then recovering herself is repeated throughout the text. She turns away from the two stray cats courting and is more likely to accept pictures of beauty such as the Pear Tree, or Pearl as sexual before she does the more animalistic images of sex."
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Katherine Mansfield's "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Garden Party", 1992.
An analysis of the theme of death in the short stories.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 20.95
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"Death pervades Mansfield's short stories. Her own illness of pleurisy/consumption and the harsh effects of World War I focused her thinking and reactions. As social commentator, she continued to remain an active participant in the European intelligencia. Like many of her contemporaries, however, Mansfield felt cut off from the harshness of death and war (x-xi).
The Daughters of The Late Colonel and The Garden Party depict characters in society facing the real world consequences of death. Through Josephine and Constantia in Daughters, Mansfield emphasizes how illness and death pervades not only the dead but the living as well. Death cuts the daughters off from an adult, mature life; trapped in their service to the memory of their overbearing father that leaves them ill-equipped and unprepared to live life on their own. In The Garden Party..."
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Taming of Katherine, 2002.
Character analysis of Katherine in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".
1,487 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper examines the character of Katherine; discussing the various techniques used by Shakespeare to establish the theme of the play "Taming the Shrew". It also answers the question whether Katherine was tamed eventually or not.
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"Taming The Shrew by William Shakespeare is a comedy play tactfully and purposely divided into five entertaining acts (Plot Structure). The induction highlights the possible reasons for the play's existence followed by an introduction all the characters playing a vital role in developing the theme of the play and the development of the gist of the story, in the first act (Plot Structure). The taming (the main purpose of the play) of the female lead begins in the Act II and III with Katherine getting married to Petruchio. The climactic act is the act IV when the aim of cultivating and changing Kate to a productive human being is accomplished (Plot Structure). The final Act V establishes the connection and creates harmony between all the characters of the play and brings forward the implied meaning of Katherine's portrayal (Plot Structure) as a shrew."
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Lady Anne and Katherine, 2002.
This paper compares and contrasts the courting of Lady Anne by the Duke of Gloucester in William Shakespeare's play "Richard III" with the courting of Katherine by Petruchio in the play "The Taming of the Shrew".
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 41.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the courting of Lady Anne by the Duke of Gloucester in William Shakespeare's play "Richard III" with the courting of Katherine by Petruchio in the play "The Taming of the Shrew".
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"Katherine", 2002.
A literary analysis of "Katherine" by Anya Seton, focusing on the diction used in the work.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 13.95
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This essay analyzes the diction of "Katherine" by Anya Seton in terms of whether the language is concrete or abstract, whether the words have interesting connotations, whether the diction is formal or colloquial and what inferences can be drawn about the speaker from the word choice of the speaker.
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Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson, 2002.
Discusses the work of Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson in terms of which writer is more realistic in dealing with adolescent identity problems.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 13.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the work of Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson in terms of which writer is more realistic in dealing with adolescent identity problems. The paper compares their major novels and concludes that Paterson's portrayal of the issue is more realistic than McCullers'.
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Constructing Gender Identity in the Poetry of Katherine Philips, 2002.
An analysis of gender identity in several poems by the 17th century poet, Katherine Philips.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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By examining and analyzing several of Katherine Philips's poems, the author of this paper shows how Philips' poetry was most notable for its creative construction of gender and female sexuality, but surmises that the vision was secretly expressed inside the conventional language of female friendship.
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"This is a point in Philips' poetry where she moves into the more conventional realm of Platonic love-a safe and respectable realm in the 17th century-but also a point at which she begins to manipulate her audiences' ideas of what that realm really is. For example, Philips implies that ascending towards Platonic love (i.e., spiritual or ideal love) allows friends or lovers to imagine an alternative reality for themselves, different from the one in which they now find themselves. This realm would give the two women the freedom to live out their "Fate" (l.7). In fact, in Philips' poem "To my Excellent Lucasia," she writes that her connection to Lucasia is "As innocent as our Design, / Immortal as our Soul" (ll.23-4)."
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Katherine Paterson and Children's Literature, 2002.
A discussion of the contribution of author Katherine Paterson to multi-cultural children's literature.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 51.95
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In this analysis, Paterson's work will be viewed as representing a significant contribution to multi-cultural literature in that it requires us to examine our criteria for multi-cultural literature and to see that these criteria extend beyond representations of people of colour, to explore the depth and nature of the forces that connect and divide us as cultural beings.
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The Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, 1999.
An examination of the stories of author Katherine Anne Porter.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 1 source, £ 37.95
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This essay, about Katharine Anne Porter, focuses on her stories about the character Miranda, specifically "Old Mortality," "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," and "The Old Order." The paper relates Miranda in these stories to the South after the Civil War, which is where and when the stories take place.
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Three Novels by Katherine Anne Porter, 2001.
A look at three of Katherine Anne Porter's novels with the central theme of betrayal.
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, £ 21.95
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This essay explores the idea that Porter's three books "Noon Wine", "Flowering Judas" and "Theft", despite seemingly diverse story lines, all have the central theme of betrayal.
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"Katherine Anne Porter writes with a pen of diversity, creating storylines that contrast each other in seemingly every aspect of fiction. Her Noon Wine, Flowering Judas, and Theft detail their plots with dissimilar settings, characters, writing techniques, and actions to ensure each claims a new experience in fiction. Yet the Porter trio have enough psychological similarities in thesis to generate the same meaning. In each story, betrayal emerges as the central theme."
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Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", 2002.
Character analysis of the short story, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", by Katherine Anne Porter.
1,423 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 24.95
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This paper describes the deathbed experience of the main character in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The paper tells us about the past of the Granny Weatherall and describes her feisty personality. The event that occurred in her life that gives meaning to the title of the story is explained and analyzed. When explaining the process of dying as experienced by Granny Weatherall, the paper refers to each of the stages in the "five stages of dying".
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"Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is a poignant story about the last hours of a dying woman. Porter takes her readers through the life of an eighty year old woman as she drifts in and out of consciousness, in and out of reality. Although, she has had a good life on the whole, Ellen Weatherall is haunted by a past experience that she cannot forgive or forget."
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