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Modernism
Writers
Katherine
Mansfield
Literary Modernism
* Literary Modernism flourished in Europe
and America in the 1920’s and 1930´s.
* Modernist writers experimented with
forms and styles and a radical break with
some of the traditional modes.
““Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinion
of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on
earth for you.
Act for yourself.
Face the truth.
-Katherine Mansfield,, October 1922
Katherine Mansfield
• Remembered for her short stories and
poems.
• Wrote several short story collections:
The Garden Party A Dill Pickle
Mr and Mrs Dove The Fly.
• Some consider her one of the best short
story writers of all time.
Biography
Most of her most famous works came in her final years
• Born on1888 in
New Zealand
• One brother, three
sisters
Middle Child
• At the age of 23
• To John Middleton
Married • Suffered from
depression
• 1918 got sick of
tuberculosis
Died on
1923
Mansfield as a writer
• Modernist
• Descriptive
• Full of symbols,
metaphors and
tons of imagery.
• Characters are
generally warm-
hearted and
sensitive
• Her stories
consists of
everyday
concerns.
• Influenced
women
Useful sites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJYokb1tog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1qojYZW-I
MODERNISM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDCEtnXlA4Y
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

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