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The Haunted Dollsā House by M.R. James Short Story Analysis
āThe Haunted Dollsā Houseā (1923) is a short ghost story by Montague Rhodes James. Being out of copyright, you can read it at Project Gutenberg. WHERE TO LISTEN You may be able to unearth the BBC dramatization of this short story somewhere e.g. on YouTube. āThe Haunted Dollsā Houseā was broadcast 1 January 1998. Hereās [ā¦]
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Mr Reginald Peacockās Day by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
r Reginald Peacockās Dayā (1917) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, functioning mainly as a character study.
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Gingerbread Girl by Stephen King Short Story Analysis
āThe Gingerbread Girlā by Stephen King is a long short story by American writer Stephen King. Find it in Just After Sunset (2008).
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The Children Stay by Alice Munro Short Story Analysis
āThe Children Stayā is a short story by Alice Munro, published in the collection The Love Of A Good Woman (1998). Itās very difficult to write empathetically about women who leave their husbands and children for another man, especially when itās purely lust driven rather than depicted as āpure loveā. This is because mothers are [ā¦]
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Goethe and Angela Carterās Erl-king Short Story Analysis
āThe Erl-Kingā is a short story by Angela Carter based on an old ballad by Goethe, one of the most famous ballads ever told. Carterās re-visioning doesnāt use the plot from Goetheās ballad, but borrows some of the atmosphere. Carter inverts the gaze and turns it into something new. As you might expect from Angela [ā¦]
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The Little Governess by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
Katherine Mansfield wrote. Itās a cautionary tale without the Perrault didacticism. Itās Little Red Riding Hood, but social realism. This story exists to say, āYouāre not alone.ā Itās a gendered story, about the specifically femme experience of being alone in public space. Some critics find the ending inadequate. This is a stellar example of a lyrical short story with emotionalā¦
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A Blaze by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
āA Blazeā (1911) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, included in her German Pension collection. This is a story about a dynamic known in Japan as amae.
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Doctor Jack-oā-Lantern by Richard Yates Analysis
āDoctor Jack-oā-Lanternā is a short story by Richard Yates, the first in his 1962 collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. The story of the new kid in school is very popular in childrenās literature, which is of course written for children. But what might a New Kid In School story for adults look like? This is [ā¦]
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Poison by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
Poisonā (1920) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the last in the Something Childish and Other Stories collection, published by Middleton Murry four years later, after her death. Commentators have noticed veiled references to āMy Last Duchessā, a poem by Robert Browning about a murderous duke.
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Taking The Veil by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
āTaking The Veilā is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, published in her collection The Doveās Nest (1930). Our main character Edna should be feeling great right now. Sheās eighteen, sheās beautiful and sheās in love. One slight problem. She is about to become a Bride of Christ, also known as taking the veil. (Or [ā¦]
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The Lap Pool by Robert Drewe Short Story Analysis
āThe Lap Poolā is a short story by Australian author Robert Drewe, and the opening story in the 2008 collection The Rip.
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Feuille dāAlbum by Katherine Mansfield Analysis
āFeuille dāAlbumā (1917) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, included in the Bliss collection. The word āalbumā comes from Latin, neuter ofĀ albusĀ āwhiteā, and used as a noun means āa blank tabletā.Ā This is the story of a man who appears to have no personality. Because of this, a group of women become fascinated by him, [ā¦]
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Psychology by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
āPsychologyā (1919) is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, redolent with sexual tension which unexpectedly morphs into something else at the end. As expected from the title, the bulk of the story comprises a characterās interiority. After first setting the mood, Mansfield gets right into a womanās feelings. Yet do we feel we know her? We must read between theā¦
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Katherine Mansfieldās Influences
THE INFLUENCES OF PLACE AND ERA Katherine Mansfield grew up in middle class Wellington, New Zealand and moved to Europe as a young adult to finish her education in London. Some of her stories are influenced by her experiences in England, Belgium and Bavaria (In a German Pension). Her first stories were accepted by The [ā¦]
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How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped by Katherine Mansfield Short Story Analysis
āHow Pearl Button Was Kidnappedā is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield, published 1912. At its heart, āPearl Buttonā is a story about a clash of two cultures seen through a childās eyes. This story plays out as a duality of restriction and freedom. The European settlers are restricted while the MÄori people enjoy [ā¦]