Katherine Mansfield

Question 1

Judith Butler

Answer 1

gender as a learned performance

Question 2

The Garden Party

Answer 2

about class, performativity

they’re throwing a party and someone is killed by a shying horse not far away

Question 3

GP quotes performativity

Answer 3

‘She blushed and tried to look a little severe, and even a little bit short sighted’
‘the first thing she saw was this charming girl in the mirror, in her black hat trimmed with gold daisies and a long black velvet ribbon’
‘ “Laura you look quite Spanish. I’ve never seen you look so striking.” ‘
‘Forgive my hat’

Question 4

GP stream of conciousness

Answer 4

‘It’s so delicious to have an excuse for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things’

Question 5

GP quotes

Answer 5

‘he was thrown out on the back of his head. Killed’
‘ “Don’t be so extravagant” ‘
‘It was a mistake to have come; she knew all along it was a mistake’
‘What did garden parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him’
‘isn’t life -‘ … ‘Isn’t it darling’ said Laurie.

Question 6

Karen Shaup

Answer 6

Laura aestheticises Scott’s body, inability to confront economic realism
influence of Wilde’s aestheticism on Mansfield’s writing