Feng, Zongpu
(um 1983)
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Index of Names : China
Chronology Entries (2)
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| 1 | 1984 |
Feng, Zongpu. Shi lun Mansifei'erde de xiao shuo yi shu [ID D30056]. "…Some critics hold the view that Katherine Mansfield effected a revolution in the short story comparable to that achieved by Joyce in the novel. Her revolution started with Prelude, and it never ceased developing. Her work is characterized by a unity of interior and exterior, a fusion of emotion and setting, an interdependence of suppression and expression. It succeeds in evoking an imaginary, poetic realm uniquely her own. In this realm she affects her readers with atmosphere and mood… Speaking of Katherine Mansfield, Middleton Murry claimed rightly that 'her affinities are rather with the English poets than with the English prose-writers. She was specially gifted at depicting a scene. It was more than a mere technique to her. She saw and felt in a scene what was not seen or felt by others… The blending of scenic description and expression of emotion gives Mansfield's work a special mood, and the reader derives from it the same pleasure as that obtained from reading poetry… There are two devices which reinforce the background in her writing. One is symbolism, an art of indicating something more than narration. The other is an art of exclusion and suggestion, a way of concealing meaning and leaving it to the reader to discover. The former is expression and the latter suppression… The exquisiteness of Mansfield's art of implication lies in withholding her artistic effect until the last moment. With the story unfolding gradually she would bring a sudden stop to her delineation of external events and turn inward… Although her heart responded turbulently to what she observed in her environment, Mansfield always managed to control herself, betraying few inner thoughts or emotions of her own in her work… Mansfield's suggestive style creates a spiritual ambience very similar to that of Chinese painting, where the croakings of frogs in a ten-acre field can be imagined from the simple drawing of a few tadpoles, or where a departing sail against the horizon, depicted on mere paper, can trigger off boundless wistfulness. It is a subtle aesthetic effect, and the key to Mansfield's 'secret' as well… Most of Mansfield's stories are events happening on a single day, such as a dinner party, a reunion, relating the events of a journey, or a visit to a doll's house…Her language is as purified and concise as the structure of her fiction, making her work crystal clear. Because she was ill, and because she lived in the shadow of death, the tragic events in some of her stories tended to be tinged with fatalism. In her eyes the tragedy of life was unavoidable." |
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| 2 | 1984 |
Feng, Zongpu. Shuo jie zhi [ID D30057]. "… Katherine Mansfield's skill in economy is first demonstrated in her forging and pruning of the content of her stories. Her writing about class oppression is, in my view, better than the work of Virginia Woolf and Bowen. It might have been through her worries over her livelihood and her wandering way of life that she knew about human suffering and hardship, and became endowed with profound sympathy. She nevertheless wrote with restraint, never letting her pen wander into areas that she knew little of… Mansfield's art of economy is her selection of details. This is indeed a platitude, yet she is really outstanding at it. The most suitable and convincing details should be chosen in order that the many ideas intended to be conveyed in a limited space would be expressed in the best possible way. Mansfield wasted few words on the outward appearances of her characters, and, often, captured the essence with only a few notes on what her characters were wearing… Her art of economy is represented in her language, which is simple and clear-cut, reading like a gurgling stream, resonating with a feeling of transparency…" |
Bibliography (3)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1983 |
[Mansfield, Katherine]. Mansifei'erde duan pian xiao shuo xuan. Mansifei'erde zhu ; Chen Liangting, Zheng Qiyin, Feng Zongpu, Huang Gaoxin, Tang Yi, Zhang Jianping, Liu Wenlan, Hong Yi, Fang Ping yi. [Repr.] (Shanghai : Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, 1983). (20 shi ji wai guo wen xue cong shu). [Übersetzung ausgewählter Short stories von Mansfield]. 曼斯菲尔德短篇小说选 [Enthält] : Fang, Ping. Bi duan yun xiu, ru jian qi ren. Nachwort. Hua yuan cha hui = The garden party, Yi bei cha = A cup of tea, The tiredness of Luo sha bei er jing meng ji = Rosabel, Qiu zhi nü = The little governess, Nü zhu ren de tie shen nü pu = The lady's maid, Jin si que = The canary, Bake ma ma de yi sheng = Life of Ma Parker, Yang wa wa de fang zi = The doll's house, Yang yang he liang liang = Sun and moon, Xiao gu niang = The little girl, Liu bian shi = Sixpence, Qi feng le = The wind blows, Ge zi xian sheng he fur en = Mr and Mrs Dove, Zhi qi ke ju, dan chu yu tian ran = Something childish but very natural, Hua ce de yi ye = Feuille d'album, Hua duo = This flower, Mo sheng ren = The stranger, Xing fu = Bliss, Li xiang jia ting = An ideal family, Du yao = Poison, Lei jin na de de yi tian = Mr. Reginald Peacock's day, Shi luo pao cai = A dill pickle, Di yi ci wu hui = Her first ball, Chang ge ke = The singing lesson, Bu li er xiao jie = Miss Brill, Mo si xiao jie de yi tian = Pictures, Ye shen chen = Late at night, Cang ying = The fly, Tu er qi yu = Bains turcs, Xu qu = Prelude. |
Publication / Mans39 |
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| 2 | 1984 | Feng, Zongpu. Shi lun Mansifei'erde de xiao shuo yi shu. In : Guo wai wen xu ; no 2 (1984). [Mansfield's fictional art]. | Publication / Mans72 | |
| 3 | 1984 | Feng, Zongpu. Shuo jie zhi. In : Du shu ; no 10 (1984). [Discussion of Katherine Mansfield's technique]. | Publication / Mans73 |