Format:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
1350135526
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1350135518
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9781350135536
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9781350135529
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9781350135512
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9781350135512
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9781350135505
Series Statement:
Historicizing modernism
Content:
"Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith . Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate the modernist short fiction writer, Katherine Mansfield. Reassessing Mansfield's life, work and reputation in the light of new research in literary modernism the book maps new directions for future Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century. Drawing on current work from postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, affect studies, book, periodical and manuscript studies, and auto/biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art as well as new archival discoveries, this is an essential contribution to our deepening understanding of a central modernist figure."--
Content:
Introduction : Words in the world / Aimée Gasston -- Form and force. Signes of Spring : a letter from Katherine Mansfield / Ali Smith -- Reflecting (upon) ellipsis : Katherine Mansfield as case-study / Elleke Boehmer -- Dirty snow : Mansfield, Joyce and the Modernist snow globe / Enda Duffy -- In-scribing silence : reading how the silences speak in Mansfield's stories / Ruchi Mundeja -- Mansfield's Modernisms. What plant's in 'Prelude'? Colonialism, gender, and speculative botany / William Kupinse -- Katherine Mansfield and American Modernism / Chris Mourant -- 'A god instead of a mortal' : Katherine Mansfield and the Orphic mysteries / Erika Baldt -- 'But the smile undid them' : Bergsonian perceptions of impermissible comedy in Katherine Mansfield's 'Psychology' / Nick Hocking -- Literary influence and life writing. 'Something sensational and new' : Katherine Mansfield's engagement with the literary marketplace in London, 1908-09 / Katie L. Jones -- 'From my life I write to you in your life' : Katherine Mansfield, Philip Larkin and Yiyun Li / Kathleen Jones -- 'An intellectual comradeship' : a reassessment of the relationship between George Bowden and Katherine Mansfield / Gerri Kimber -- Social and domestic transactions. Economic women : money and (im)mobility in selected stories by Katherine Mansfield / Janet M. Wilson -- Labour, idleness, and life narrative in the Garden Party and Other Stories / Alex Moffett -- Here's to you, Miss Moss : Katherine Mansfield's prostitute / Ann Herndon Marshall.
Note:
"Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith. Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate the modernist short fiction writer, Katherine Mansfield. Reassessing Mansfield's life, work and reputation in the light of new research in literary modernism the book maps new directions for future Mansfield studies in the twenty-first century. Drawing on current work from postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, affect studies, book, periodical and manuscript studies, and auto/biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art as well as new archival discoveries, this is an essential contribution to our deepening understanding of a central modernist figure"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350135505
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Katherine Mansfield London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350135536
