Katherine Mansfield: The Development Of The Modern Short Story

The Development of the modern short story

The modern short story suffered a change between 1800 and 1890, a rise which was concurrent with the emergence of literary modernism. Between the formal properties and the capacities of the short story and the new ways of representing the social world displayed in modernist fiction, and the concern with formal innovation, there are various connections, which happen to be more than circumstantial.

Modernism and the short story had meaningful implications in terms of literary history, and in defining the role of fiction-making in the twentieth century. It is known for the compression of time and the dependence on symbolism. The essence in literary modernism is sheathed in the short story, with its abiding

She was a leading New Zealand writer, born and raised in New Zealand and wrote under the pseudonym Katherine Mansfield. At the age of 19, Katherine left New Zealand and moved to Britain, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In the year of 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her early death at the age of 34.

As a symbol of modernism, Katherine Mansfield was honored with many houses named after her, their being high schools and colleges, as well as a Wellington Park and the street she lived at, in France.

Biography of Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, and deceased on March 28, 1941, in England. Virginia became one of the most important writers of the twentieth century when it comes to the invigorating process of modernism, and a true pioneer of stream of consciousness as a device to

While we learned how impactful modernism was, we also learned how important short stories are, not necessarily just modernist ones, but all of them. Their short size that allows quick reading and easy interpretation, which certainly makes them very attracting for the reader. These characteristics, aligned with the modernist traits brought by remarkable writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, result in wonderful short stories that every avid reader should experience, as the four of us