曼斯菲尔德小说的边缘性主题探究

英国短篇小说家曼斯菲尔德生长在英属殖民地,与身为女性的非主流身份决定了她的优秀作品都涉及了女性、儿童等弱势群体在社会生活中的边缘性地位,而人的这种边缘化趋势又正是现代主义向后现代主义过渡过程中作为主体的人逐渐失去对生存的把握的一种反映。透析作者的生平及其主要作品,不难看出作者对这种变化的形象化演绎。

Exploration of the Marginal Motif in Mansfield's Short Stories

Katherine Mansfield, a British short story writer, was born in British colony. This background and her female identity determined her masterpieces were related to the marginal position of some feeble groups like women and children. At the same time this trend was a reflection of situation where man the subject gradually lost his control over existence in the course of transformation from Modernism to Post-modernism. This paper analyzes the author's life and works and interprets her visual illation of the changes.