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The Characteristics of Modernism in The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield



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Liu Xi, Zhou Yu-ying

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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2015.08B.006

Changchun University, Changchun, China

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), born and brought up in colonial New Zealand, was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction. As one of England’s most gifted short story writers, she was influenced over eight decades of writers. The Wind Blows, published in 1920, unfolds a meaningful story which was written to memorize her prime youth and homeland. The substances of the story on the material level come from the memories of Mansfield’s native country, New Zealand. Furthermore, it was also a short story whose subject on the form level is based upon the winds blowing outside, corresponding with a little girl’s delicate feelings. Mansfield probes the inner world of the characters and explores their feelings and thoughts from the perspectives of symbolism, stream of consciousness, and toning down of the plot. This paper aims to analyze the techniques of modernism in The Wind Blows from the perspective of symbolic significance, stream of consciousness, and toning down of the plot.

modernism, symbolism, stream of consciousness