A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill”
Authors:Ibrahim, Farah HafedhSource:Al-Adab; 2020; 132(2): 77-96. [Journal Detail] University of Baghdad.Notes:English summary; Arabic summary.Peer Reviewed:YesISSN:1994-473XNational Literature Classification:Subject Literature: English literature
Period: 1900-1999
Primary Subject Author: Mansfield, Katherine(1888-1923)
Primary Subject Work: 'Miss Brill'
Genre: short storySubject Terms:use of female imagery; style; language; relationship to sexual equality; stereotypes; discrimination; feminist approachDocument Information:Publication Type: journal article
Language of Publication: English
Update Code: 2020110601
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Werlock, Abby H. P. “‘A Jury of Her Peers.’” Encyclopedia of the American Short Story, 2-Volume Set, Third Edition, Facts On File, 2013. Bloom's Literature, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100535&itemid=WE54&articleId=9352. Accessed 15 July 2023.
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annotation paragraphs.
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Jones, Joe. “Isolation and Death in Faulkner’s Work.” Elucidator 61.2 (2003): 122-24. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 15 June 2009.
Jones has a Ph.D. in Faulkner Literature, and the Elucidator is a peer-reviewed journal that has
been published since 1901. Jones examines Emily’s isolation, especially that of her childhood.
He concludes that her secret relationship with Homer, who is part of her social class, is a result
of her loneliness and desperation for companionship. In addition, Jones feels that Emily may also
be rebelling against her father, who never let her have a relationship. I will use this article to
provide support and examples to show that Emily is rebelling against the isolation she felt as a
child, which carried into adulthood. Jones’ examples points to Emily secretly being very angry
with her father and blaming him for her current loneliness.
Smith, Sue. “Psychological Interpretations of ‘A Rose for Emily’.” Interpretations of American
Literature (2nd ed.). Ed. Frank Harvey. New York: Singleton, 1991. 80-89. Print.
Smith is an English Professor at the University of Spartanburg, who has published many articles
and two books on Faulkner. In this essay, Smith uses Freud’s psychological theories to analyze
Emily’s strange behavior. Freud believed that repressing sexual desires leads to abnormal
psychological developments. Smith argues that Emily has developed necrophilia because her
father (and the genteel Southern culture she grew up in) did not allow her to have a normal
relationship with a man. I will use this article to support my thesis that Emily’s strange behavior
is the result of her upbringing. This article explains psychological theories that can be applied to
the story and gives examples from the text where Emily is exhibiting the symptoms of
psychological repression and abnormal behavior.
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