My 'Many' Selves: A Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Study of Mansfield's Work!
Résumé
In her Notebooks, Katherine Mansfield emphasised the cognitive instability of the self 'Which self? Which of my many […] hundreds of selves?'. This paper shows how this recurrent psycho-cognitive experience – being many selves – might be studied both as cognitive material explored by her work as a writer and as a resulting narrative technique endowing her characters with meaningful emotions. Mansfield’s aesthetics of lyrical miniature, her style (in particular her use of free indirect thought and exclamative constructions) and her professional experience all record a multiplication (or 'opening') of the self/ves. The writer's deconstruction of the self turns out to constitute an artistic endeavour— transcending our egotistic lives in order to reach a more poetic sense of otherness.
Domaines
Linguistique
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