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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 a brief review of narratology
1.2 Katherine Mansfield's life and works
1.3 the themes of Katherine Mansfield's short stories
1.4 Katherine Mansfield studies
Chapter Two Mansfield's Free Plot Stories
2.1 epiphany
2.2 in medias res
2.3 open-ended stories
Chapter Three Manipulation of Narrative Time, Perspective and Employment of Free Indirect Discourse
3.1 anachrony
3.2 accretion
3.3 circumlocution
3.4 free indirect discourse
3.5 shifting of narrative perspective
Chapter Four Images and Symbols in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories
4.1 the image of flower in Mansfield's stories
4.2 the image of animal in Mansfield's stories
4.3 the image of the sun and the sea in Mansfield's stories
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements