Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This article explores the use of landscape and interior spaces in Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, emphasising how these settings reflect her characters’ emotions, psychological states, and societal roles. It discusses how landscapes often symbolise freedom, beauty, and emotional reflection, while interior spaces represent confinement, social expectations, and psychological tension. The article analyzes stories such as “At the Bay,” “Prelude,” “The Doll’s House,” and “Bliss,” demonstrating how Mansfield contrasts exterior and interior settings to enhance themes of alienation, transience, and the conflict between personal desires and social constraints. Through this dynamic interplay, Mansfield deepens the emotional and thematic complexity of her fiction.
Author: Sitorabonu Ataullayeva
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4411040937