Between Tradition And Modernity

Katherine Mansfield is a famous short story writer in the history of English literature at the beginning of twentieth century, her short novel creation marks the British short stories to a mature stage. Mansfield wrote88short stories, of which nearly1/4of the novel is the family background of narration. In these novels, included family men, women, children’s image, and through the changes of family members of the various relationships between performance, family individual loneliness, disillusionment of modern subjective feelings, and through these subjective narration show various changes and the deep sense of self character of the thick home complex. The main contents of this paper are as follows:The first chapter "the loneliness and disillusion: traditional family micro characters reduced" mainly discusses the traditional family in the family novels of Mansfield triangle pattern changes and family triangle unbalanced development in the family alone, the subjective feelings of disillusionment. Mansfield describes the traditional mode of family content of the novel, but as families triangular relations are not harmonious, imbalance in the changes, which show the traditional family novels, and describe this kind of variation characters under family alone, disillusionment of individual feeling. The feeling is not only reflected in the male images, but also reflected in the roles of women and children.The second chapter "deletion and insight: modern individual self reconstruction" mainly through mining on the triangular relationship between family triangle imbalance and disharmony factors, deep analysis of cause of the imbalance of family triangle and characters of subjective feelings, thus draws the conclusion: the family character self awareness is the main reason leading to the family members of the lonely and disillusioned feeling, mainly due to reduced the traditional family triangle relationship is harmonious balance; and further explains the awakening of women’s self reconstruction, male reflective reconstruction, children explore the self reconstruction. This kind of self consciousness and the reconstruction of the description, the main contents of Mansfield’s family novels and the traditional family narrative innovation mode of exploration.The third chapter "criticism and Reflection: the impact of Mansfield family novels external economic and social cultural creative motivation" family novel hand. The effects of these external factors make Mansfield pay close attention to the family, focus on the family life of women in experience, emotion, so that the family novel creation become her important position, and has made the further reform and exploration based on inheriting the traditional British family novel pattern and the content of the theme; Mansfield in the family novels of stream of consciousness, symbol, view transformation of modernism in literary creation, but also to a large extent influenced by the cultural ideological trend at that time. On the other hand, explains the autobiographical elements in Mansfield’s works. Her childhood middle class family life, marriage life, adult illness and death consciousness deeply influenced her family novels. All in her family novels embody those lonely, disillusionment characters portrayed, also is not harmonious family triangle triangle relationship between interpretation and exploration of the harmonious relationship between family members and yearning and exploration.To make a long story short, Mansfield’s family novels embody the mutual fusion of tradition and Modernity of her novels. The Mansfield family novels, depicting family relationships, inherited the British literature of the "great tradition"; those pierce to the heart of the matter of irony in her novels, is also not difficult to find Austen’s shadow. In writing skills, Mansfield is good at using modern strong artistic techniques, such as: stream of consciousness, multi perspective narrative, time interleaving, symbol, hint, desalination, feminism, detail description technique. Using the traditional family novel form, modern practices as well as depicted on the modern individual character’s unique experience, makes Mansfield’s works both tradition and modernity. Mansfield’s life in the pursuit and yearning for the ideal of the family, but whether it is the real world, or the spiritual world, she died didn’t get what she wanted an ideal family, did not find her spiritual home; it is also in this struggle, Mansfield in her novel to write family stories, expect to find the ideal family in which, find the spiritual journey.