An Outline of Analysis of a Mansfield Story

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 636.

1. Intriguing introduction with a promise of the things which you are to dwell upon

(The essentials of experimental modernistic prose, a short story with new poetics, with the unobtrusive surface and pathetically ironic depth)

2. A summary of the text (Abstraction and concretization)

3. General slant of the text (pathetically ironic which is to be proved and copiously illustrated)

4. Conceptual analysis of the text (themes, problems, artistic principles)

5. Artistic analysis of the text

1). A new vanishing author

2). A new unheroic (but multi-dimensional and ambiguous character)

3). Discrepancies between points of view

4). Shifting time

5). The characterization of narrative techniques

6). The text's structural design and new compositional techniques (middle from the beginning, missing links in the chain techniques, aposiopeses, flashbacks and daydreams, the false perspective technique, arrangement of details, the unfinished finale with future extension)

7), Application of artistic methods (metonymic, impressionistic, method of the depth of the context)

8). Characterization of the pervading style (objectively oblique on the surface, suggestive, implicitly ironic)

9). The choice of the vocabulary (domesticated and unobtrusive, but semantically charged

10). Imagery (tropes and figures of speech; the peculiarities of K.M.'s epithets, metonymy, the mechanism of her irony based on the false perspective technique and understatement)

11). Artistic morphology

12). Artistic syntax (inversion, ellipsis, aposiopesis, interpolation, breaks in the narrative chain, fragmentation, ascending and descending scales with effects of movement, light breathing, tremulous flight)

13). Artistic punctuation and graphics.

6. Conclusion

1). Brief characterization of the author's artistic system and her innovation of a short story

2). The analyst's attitude to the text analyzed.