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Katherine Mansfield in Themes and Motifs of her Poetic Creation
Křížová, Barbora ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the poems of Katherine Mansfield and the extent to which chosen themes and motifs reflect her personal life. It also aims at the interconnection of the themes in her poetry with the other genres the writer used. The study is predominantly based on two biographies, collections of Mansfield's poems, letters, diary entries and short stories. Owing to a great number of her letters, diary entries and detailed autobiographies, the thesis presents the life and work of Katherine Mansfield with her sources of inspiration; in the practical part it attempts to connect the themes and motifs from Mansfield's poetry with the events in her life and different genres she chose to use. Key words Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield's poetry, Katherine Mansfield's biography, Katherine Mansfield's short stories, Modernist Literature, New Zealand Literature
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Katherine Mansfield in Themes and Motifs of her Poetic Creation
Křížová, Barbora ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the poems of Katherine Mansfield and the extent to which chosen themes and motifs reflect her personal life. It also aims at the interconnection of the themes in her poetry with the other genres the writer used. The study is predominantly based on two biographies, collections of Mansfield's poems, letters, diary entries and short stories. Owing to a great number of her letters, diary entries and detailed autobiographies, the thesis presents the life and work of Katherine Mansfield with her sources of inspiration; in the practical part it attempts to connect the themes and motifs from Mansfield's poetry with the events in her life and different genres she chose to use. Key words Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield's poetry, Katherine Mansfield's biography, Katherine Mansfield's short stories, Modernist Literature, New Zealand Literature
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A Comparison of Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
Synková, Blanka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis compares short stories by the New Zealand-born author Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), namely Mansfield's short story collection Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and Bowen's The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945). It aims to offer a relatively complex view: it discusses the form as well as the content of the short stories, illustrating the arguments with concrete examples from the short stories, famous ones as well as less known; it suggests various influences that may reflect in the short stories, it offers opinions of notable critics on the individual authors and it also occasionally mentions the authors' own opinions on their work and literature in general. There are three chapters in the body of the thesis. One of them provides contextual information about the possible influences that may have shaped the authors' writing as well as about some critical approaches to their work. The other two chapters analyse the form and content of the stories, respectively. The discussion of formal aspects of Mansfield's and Bowen's short stories focuses on various features of the short stories that may be described as impressionist or lyrical, and on technical devices that may be compared to film. The analysis of content is concerned especially...
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