Bliss
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Bliss is a celebrated short story by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield that explores themes of female desire, social pretense, and emotional revelation during a single evening gathering.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bliss canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Katherine Mansfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Bertha Young’s inner emotional awakening versus social reality ⓘ |
| climax | Bertha’s discovery of her husband’s affair with Pearl Fulton ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely anthologized and critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
constraints of middle-class domestic life
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tension between inner emotion and outward behavior ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Eddie Warren
NERFINISHED
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Harry Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr Norman Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs Norman Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Fulton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The English Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio drama adaptations
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television adaptations ⓘ |
| includedIn | Katherine Mansfield’s collected stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterPublishedIn | Bliss and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
free indirect discourse
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interior monologue ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bertha Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
party gathering
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pear tree ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| notableSymbol | pear tree ⓘ |
| protagonist | Bertha Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
early 20th century ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
modernist literature courses
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women’s writing courses ⓘ |
| theme |
class consciousness
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emotional revelation ⓘ epiphany ⓘ female desire ⓘ illusion versus reality ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ repressed sexuality ⓘ social pretense ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfFictionalEvents | single evening ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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lyrical ⓘ |
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