凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德(Katherine Mansfield,1888-1923)是出生于新西兰的著名的英国女作家,她大量杰出的短篇小说使其在英国文坛占有一席之地,也被誉为百年来新西兰最有影响的作家之一。曼斯菲尔德所处19世纪末20世纪初的西方社会,其写作受到当时流行的现代主义流派影响,作品中带有现代主义特征,如象征主义、意识流、以及女性主义等等,但她又对自己的写作进行了大胆的创新与改革,为英国短篇小说的发展与成熟做出了重要的贡献。本文将以曼斯菲尔德的作品为实例,来分析时间倒错的叙事技巧在其作品中的应用。 Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a famous British writer born in New Zealand. She has a large number of outstanding short stories that make her a place in the British literary world. She is also known as New Zealand’s most influential writer for centuries one. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mansfield’s writings were influenced by the prevailing schools of modernism with modernist features such as symbolism, stream of consciousness and feminism, His own writing has made bold innovations and reforms and made important contributions to the development and maturity of British short stories. This article will be Mansfield’s works as an example to analyze the use of time-reversed narrative techniques in his works.