Title: Reading Mansfield and metaphors of form
Description: Taking an innovative approach to criticism, Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form demonstrates how Mansfield's stylistic practice both embodies and conveys her analysis of social and psychological trauma through a "metaphoric" use of literary form. New argues that the stories are neither simple vehicles for conveying emotional states nor neutral representations of moments in time but carefully crafted models, or correlatives, of social and psychological conditions of understanding.

He elucidates a number of formal strategies, such as sequence, reversal, negation, repetition, deferral, and reconstruction, and then applies them to a wide range of Mansfield's stories, including such favorites as "Prelude," "The Voyage," "The Little Governess," and "Je ne parle pas francais."
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, History, Literary form, Literary style, Psychology in literature, Social problems in literature, Women and literature, Mansfield, katherine, 1888-1923
Places: England, New Zealand
People: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Time periods: 20th century