KATHERINE MANSFIELD - CRITICS

KATHERINE D'SOUZA - JOURNAL OF NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE (style of writing)

The approach to modernism by Mansfield...provides a mode of writing that is both a stage and a refuge

W. TODD MARTIN - KM AMONG THE MODERNS (modernism)

Mansfield brought a different perspective to modernism, and like Virginia Wolff...provides a corrective to the dominant, male- centred version of modernism.

GERRI KIMBER - NOT MINOR BUT MAJOR (modernism)

to write fiction committed to the possibilities of narrative experimentations.

GERRI KIMBER - NOT MINOR BUT MAJOR (Symbols)

Mansfield's use of symbols increase the emotional and intellectual capacity of a story

GERRI KIMBER - KM MODERNIST SHORT STORIES

They develop into slices of life - written snapshots of the lives of individuals and families.

JULIE NEVEUX - A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE STUDY OF MANSFIELD'S WORK (Female characters)

most of her female protagonists are very bad at expressive clearly...their emotions. Either their body gives them means of expression, or it is the narrative voice.

CLAIRE TOMALIN - DAUGHTER OF LATE COLONEL ANALYSIS

it is quite possible to enjoy the jokes about early 20th century genteel womanhood and miss the devastating nature of what it is saying.

GERRI KIMBER - KM'S MODERNIST SHORT STORIES (FID)

The result is an intimate method of storytelling where, for certain moments, the reader almost becomes the character on the page.