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Jayne Mansfield, 2006.
An analysis of female sexuality in the star image of Jayne Mansfield.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses whether sexuality was an important part of a star image in the 1950s narrative cinema or not. According to the paper, these questions are important when studying the 1950s films and especially when studying the films of Jayne Mansfield. Jayne Mansfield represented the era of sexuality that the 1950s used in their narrative cinemas and this sexuality can be seen in the 1950s films of 'The Girl Can't Help It', 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter', and 'The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw'.
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"Gemcrack" by Jayne Anne Phillips, 2005.
The use of symbolism as a method of uniting structure in short stories, especially experimental fiction.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This is a paper exploring the author?s use of connected symbols?feet, ankles, shoes, and hooves?in a short story formed of vignettes, or flashes. The story examined is ?Gemcrack?, from Jayne Anne Phillips's, ?Black Tickets.?
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"Jayne Anne Phillip?s linked stories in Black Tickets range in length from flash that covers a few paragraphs to full-length pieces spanning some twenty pages. However, some of these longer pieces are themselves made up of linked flashes, which split the story into segments, jumpcutting from one character or time frame to another. ?Gemcrack,? the final story in the book, is a good example of a longer piece fashioned from short first-person sections. Rather than causing confusion, navigation and interpretation of meaning is straightforward; each section is securely fastened to both its predecessor and its successor by masterful implementation of symbols."
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Innovatory Devices of Style in Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss", 2000.
An evaluation of the importance of innovatory devices of style observable in Katherine Mansfield’s "Bliss" as an example of Modernist literature.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 48.95
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This essay explores and evaluates Katherine Mansfield?s literary style with reference to her short story Bliss. It discusses the ways in which Bliss demonstrates her desire to break with the past and experiment with new methods of writing. The paper evaluates the story as an example of Modernist literature and reviews Mansfield ?s importance in the Modernist movement. The paper also provides a detailed analysis of Mansfield?s original and distinctive delivery of the short story.
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"An important figure in the modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield was a highly experiential writer who sought to find new ways of representing the world. The beginning of the twentieth century was a time of terrific change due to technological advances, scientific theories and capitalism. The First World War compounded this disturbance and literally shattered the universal values which held society together. Society was left fragmented and disillusioned and the Modernists felt that the traditional mode of representing the world in literature, specifically realism, was outdated and no longer appropriate. Mansfield ?s short story Bliss, 1918, demonstrates the desire to break with the past and experiment with new methods of writing which would express this transformed society more aptly."
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Katherine Mansfield and Women, 2003.
A discussion on women's status and sexuality in three of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper looks at three of Katherine Mansfield's short stories: "Bliss", "Je Ne Pane Pas Francais" and "Life of Ma Parker". It examines Mansfield's style, sense of realism and themes and her psychological understanding of issues confronting women.
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Kate Mansfield's "Miss Brill", 2007.
This paper analyzes the short story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield.
1,519 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the short story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield. Specifically it contains an in-depth character analysis of "Miss Brill." The paper focuses on Miss Brill's inability to see reality for what it is, which makes her a sad and even pathetic character living a tragic and flawed life. The paper's author finds Miss Brill's character to be quite complete and complex for such a short story.
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"This very short story contains quite a bit of information in just a few pages. The narrator is Miss Brill, an older single woman out to enjoy a band concert on a bright fall day. Throughout the story, the reader learns more about her character, her life, and her work, and it is clear by the end of the story that her life is empty and sad. In fact, her character is quite pathetic, not because her life is so empty, but because she cannot admit that to herself, or face reality. She is old, out of touch, and clueless. She is also a kind woman and it is clear she is harmless and meek. However, her life is tragic because it is so empty and she accepts it that way. "
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Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park', 2002.
This paper is an analysis of Austen's 'Mansfield Park' using Roland Barthes' literary criticism book 'S/Z'.
1,748 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 56.95
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The following paper examines the five codes and ideas that appear in Roland Barthes' 'S/Z' and applies it to Jane Austen's novel 'Mansfield Park'. Barthes' codes apply both on the small scale, to the language and on the larger scale, to the whole novel. This paper demonstrates the application of the codes, specifically the cultural and symbolic code, to both the novel as a whole and to certain selected texts.
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"Roland Barthes writes about different characters in Sarrasine fitting into different roles, such as passive/active or mother/father. In Mansfield Park, many of the characters fit into these roles or actant. Fanny can definitely be classified as "passive". She is not a radical, she stands for silence, tradition, tranquillity, manners and for acting upon what one knows, not what one feels. Mary Crawford is "active" and an advocate of change. She acts on her emotions and stands for movement, modern ideas, progressiveness and speaking one's mind instead of remaining silent."
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Kathleen Mansfield's "The Garden Party", 2005.
This paper discusses the themes of maturation and development in Kathleen Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper describes the evolution of Laura, a character in Kathleen Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party". The author points out that Laura is the youngest child of a privileged New Zealand family. The paper relates that, from beginning of the story, Laura exhibits signs of independent thinking and, as the story ends, she faces death immediately after enjoying the excesses of one of her family's parties.
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"Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party focuses on a wealthy New Zealand family and their collective narrow, in fact, almost incestuous, view of the world with themselves egotistically placed in the center of events. The family's youngest daughter, Laura, serves as the story's protagonist as she struggles within the confines of the lineage to which she was born; that of a rather cynical family unit which seems oblivious to events outside their specific circle of influence. Laura is immediately portrayed as different from other members of her family, as she interacts comfortably with the help hired to prepare for the pending garden party and, in fact, permits one of the hired hands to determine the location for the party's marquee."
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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", 2006.
An analysis of the heroine Fanny Price from Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park".
918 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the character of Fanny Price from the novel "Mansfield Park" and contrasts her character to other characters in the novel. The paper explains that Fanny Price's character feels her position in society deeply and acts according to what society expects of her but does not sacrifice her morals or integrity in doing so.
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"While Fanny Price of Mansfield Park is hardly Jane Austen's most flamboyant heroine, she does embody certain positive traits, which distinguish her from the Bertrams and from the rest of her immediate society. Fanny's deep sense of morality contrasts sharply to the self-centered habits of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Bertram, as well as to the conniving, indulgent behavior of Aunt Norris. Her humility and kindness set her apart from her cousins and from the Crawfords as well. In the world of Mansfield Park, only one person treats her kindly - her cousin, Edmund - and it is in her love for him that Fanny comes to embody her most heroic aspects."
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Katherine Mansfield, 2002.
An analysis of the theme of lonliness in five of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay briefly discusses five short stories of New Zealand author, Katherine Mansfield, including "Mrs. Brill," "The Doll House," "Marriage a la Mode," "The Garden Party," and "The Woman at the Store." The essay specifically discusses the common theme of loneliness in each of the stories.
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Mansfield Park: Stasis Validation or Social Critique?, 2001.
A critical analysis of 'Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen. The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
4,070 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 109.95
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An examination of the criticisms of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
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"Most critics seem to agree that the novel Mansfield Park is somehow alien to both Jane Austen?s personality and the tone of her other works. Lionel Trilling remarks that it is not possible for him to observe how different Mansfield Park is from Austen?s works both before and after, particularly from Pride and Prejudice, without supposing that she had undergone a spiritual crisis in the intervening period between the two novels. He postulates that ?fatigue? must have played a part in that crisis, apparently suggesting that Austen wrote the novel during a profoundly depressed state of mind (Trilling 433). Trilling further asserts that Austen?s other works are essentially ?modern novels,? but that Mansfield Park ?scandalizes modern assumptions about social relations, about virtue, about religion, sex and art? (Trilling 426). Trilling?s presumption is that Austen wrote Mansfield Park as a sort of atonement for the levity she had exercised earlier and that the book is to be read as a primer of behavioral attributes, without irony."
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Desire and Sexuality in Katherine Mansfield?s Short Stories, 2002.
This paper looks at Katherine Mansfield?s short stories and the ways in which they portray the nature of sexuality in the early twentieth century.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The writer discusses sexual symbolism, human behaviour and foreshadowing in these short stories. The paper explores the impact sexuality had on society, and the ways in which society affected women in relation to sexuality.
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"Almost to the end of the text her mysterious feeling of Bliss, for which she finds no outlet, drives Bertha. Mansfield explains this Bliss to the reader through the nature of Berthas actions, Bertha transfers her energy from arranging fruit, to tending her daughter but neither creative nor motherly actions can relieve her. Her duties as mother, housewife and decorator are not enough to fulfil her. Signs of sexuality materialize in this scene. The bowl of fruit sits full and ripe, ?stained? with pink as a symbol of fertility as well as temptation. The grapes still covered in bloom remain untouched, as Bertha is sexually unawakened. Bertha looses herself within the image of the fruit and its sensual nature, yet jerks herself back into reality. She contradicts the earlier sensual imagery with a superficial comment on the carpet. This pattern of indulging in her sexuality and then recovering herself is repeated throughout the text. She turns away from the two stray cats courting and is more likely to accept pictures of beauty such as the Pear Tree, or Pearl as sexual before she does the more animalistic images of sex."
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The Importance of Place in Jane Austen?s "Mansfield Park", 2001.
A woman's physical residence and status in the social hierarchy in "Mansfield Park."
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This essay questions whether one?s innate nature or the environment in which one is raised determines one?s character according to Jane Austen. The essay explains the historical background of the great estates that had traditionally been symbols of social and familial stability. Now the new commercial classes were trying to buy their way into society by acquiring great estates. The essay deals with the conflict between tradition and improvement and concludes that Austen leaves us with the sense that while place is not an absolute determinant of success, there is value in trying to continue the great estate system with those that truly understand and appreciate what it can do.
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"Like most women of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Fanny?s ?place? will be determined by the status and position of the man she marries. This is true both in terms of her place in the social hierarchy as well as the physical place where she will live in society. Her mother, for example, married ?unwisely? for love and ended up with a low social and family position. She lives in poverty in urban Portsmouth. Fanny?s aunt, Lady Bertram, on the other hand, married for social position and lives in comfort at Mansfield Park, a member of the landed gentry."
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Austen: "Mansfield Park", 1995.
Discusses Jane Austen's use of irony, interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class in her novels of manners, specifically "Mansfield Park".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"Jane Austen was noted as a novelist of manners whose works are structured around irony and interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class. Mansfield Park is a novel abut Sir Thomas Bertram and his family, representatives of the landed gentry in the time of the writing of the novel. It might seem then that the story was so much a product of a time and place that it had little to say to our contemporary society, but this is not the case. Austen above all is a novelist who delves deeply into human character, and people then and people today are not that different in what they want from life or in how they relate to other people at a basic level.
We may have little in common with the landed gentry in terms of their economic or social position. For one thing, the stratification of British society in general is foreign to us ..."
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Motivations in "Mansfield Park", 2005.
An analysis of the success of Henry and Mary Crawford's seduction of Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".
1,896 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper focuses primarily on the methods used by Henry and Mary Crawford to seduce Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram, respectively, and why these methods succeed in some instances-and with specific characters-and fail in others. It looks at why Edmund and Fanny turn down their seducers for a more fulfilling relationship together: After being raised as brother and sister, but only sharing blood as cousins since they have an unparalleled and sincere love which cannot be found or forged outside of the family bloodline.
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"Austen creates a novel version of the morality play in which Fanny and Mary personify the characteristics with which they are associated. Fanny represents every trait that will enable Edmund to live a spiritually enlightened and fulfilling life. Mary represents material and physical temptations that frustrate and prohibit spiritual growth and development. Throughout the first two volumes of the text, Edmund symbolically leaves Fanny to pursue Mary and her overwhelming temptations: Fanny is first left to cut roses under the ascendancy of Mrs. Norris while Edmund teaches Mary to ride Fanny's horse (63-5). "
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Katherine Mansfield's "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Garden Party", 1992.
An analysis of the theme of death in the short stories.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"Death pervades Mansfield's short stories. Her own illness of pleurisy/consumption and the harsh effects of World War I focused her thinking and reactions. As social commentator, she continued to remain an active participant in the European intelligencia. Like many of her contemporaries, however, Mansfield felt cut off from the harshness of death and war (x-xi).
The Daughters of The Late Colonel and The Garden Party depict characters in society facing the real world consequences of death. Through Josephine and Constantia in Daughters, Mansfield emphasizes how illness and death pervades not only the dead but the living as well. Death cuts the daughters off from an adult, mature life; trapped in their service to the memory of their overbearing father that leaves them ill-equipped and unprepared to live life on their own. In The Garden Party..."
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