The Chinese Concept of Blank in Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss and the Garden Party

Aijing Zhang

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The Chinese Concept of Blank in Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss and the Garden Party

Aijing Zhang

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 4, Issue 1)

Received: 23 April 2018 Accepted: 8 May 2018 Published: 24 May 2018

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Katherine Mansfield is a legend in the history of the modern British literature for her implicit writing style. Most of her works concentrate on creating the inner world of the characters instead of a clear beginning or tense conflicts, so as to invite readers to explore the subtle changes of the characters’ psychological world. And this thesis tries to explore the beauty of her representative works---The Garden Party and Bliss according to the Chinese artistic concept of Blank from three main aspects, including the content, structure and themes. Findings are Blanks in content are mainly used in character depiction and dialogues as a substitute for the direct and boring introduction of background information. When it is used in structure building, it plays different roles in different developmental parts. As a matter of fact, The Blanks in content and structure are often applied to leave more space for the inference of themes.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 4, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20180401.13
Page(s)	23-26
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Katherine Mansfield, Bliss, The Garden Party, Blank

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Aijing Zhang

College of Teacher Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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