作为出生在新西兰的英语小说家,凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德凭借对意识流等现代主义文学技巧的探索和对孤独、幻灭、疏离等现代人精神状态的关注,对英国现代文学的发展做出了巨大的贡献。她对人类灵魂伤痛的深刻体会与她本人的精神创伤——亲情缺失的童年、性别取向被压抑的青少年和奔波不定、漂泊无根的中年有着密切关系。 As an English novelist born in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield exerts a great influence on the development of British modern literature with his exploration of the modernist literary skills such as the stream of consciousness and his concern for the spiritual state of loneliness, disillusionment and alienation. Contributions. Her deep understanding of the pain of human soul and her own trauma - childhood missing loved ones, sex-oriented oppressed adolescents and the rushing, wandering middle age are closely related.