Selected Stories
MANSFIELD Katherine / SMITH Angela
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ENGLISH 221 - New Zealand Literature
(REQUIRED) -
Semester 1, 2022 - Univesity of Auckland
ENGLISH 355 - New Zealand Literature
(REQUIRED) -
Semester 1, 2022 - Univesity of Auckland
This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism. This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they f ...
Publication date: 2008-09-11
Number of pages: 396
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics
Subjects:
Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), NZ Fiction, NZ Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)
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