Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the short story genre through her nomadic existence, colonial perspective, eclectic interests and impressive range of literary acquaintances. This volume utilises these seemingly endless avenues for critical exploration, analysing Mansfield’s influences, including the familial, historical and geographical as well as literary and artistic approaches. Some connections are well established and acknowledged, some controversial, many still undiscovered. This volume brings a fresh collection of original viewpoints on Katherine Mansfield’s life and work, both of which, in her own case, are frequently indistinguishable. It investigates her fascinating connection with Poland which is explored in a complex and detailed way for the first time; suggests new or revised views on her connections to other English and American writers; and finally examines some of the aspects of her writing process, her engagement with the arts, imagination, memories and her constructions of different kinds of space.
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This volume brings a fresh collection of original viewpoints on Katherine Mansfield’s life and work, both of which, in her own case, are frequently indistinguishable.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionJanka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber and Władysław WitaliszSECTION 1: THE POLISH KATHERINE MANSFIELD‘From the other side of the world’: Katherine Mansfield, Poland and PoetryGerri Kimber‘God the Father’: Stanisław Wyspiański and Katherine Mansfield Wojciech BałusThe Deed, the Dead and the Living Blood: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘To Stanislaw Wyspianski’ and Its Translation into Polish by Floryan SobieniowskiMagda HeydelBetween Absence and Presence: On Katherine Mansfield’s Early Reception in PolandJoanna SobestoSECTION 2: KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S CONNECTIVITY Absence, Distance, and Influence: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals, Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton MurryRichard CappuccioCompassion and Moral Responsibility: Emma and ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’Janka KascakovaThe Perils of Autobiography: Katherine Mansfield and the Case of George GissingAnn Herndon MarshallGendered Violence and Narrative Complicity in Katherine Mansfield and Leonard Woolf: ‘The Woman at the Store’ and ‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’Elyse BlankleyKatherine Mansfield’s American Legacy: The Case of Dorothy ParkerSydney Janet KaplanSECTION 3: ARTS, SPACES AND THE WRITING PROCESSMaking Music, Making Room: Musical Performances and the Construction of Space in the Works of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia WoolfAnna LawattanatrakulWaves and ‘moment[s] of suspension’: Katherine Mansfield’s Painterly and Kinetic Language in FictionTracy MiaoThe Function of the Domestic Garden Space in ‘Prelude’ and ‘At the Bay’ Anna KwiatkowskaOn Being Chased By A Bull: Imagination, Writing and the Rush of the Short StoryKirsty GunnNotes on ContributorsIndex
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ISBN
9781032058566
Publisert
2023-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
230

Biographical note

Janka Kascakova is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia, and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic, and earned her PhD in English literature (on Katherine Mansfield’s modernism) from the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (2007). She is the Vice-President of the Katherine Mansfield Society, co-editor of several volumes including Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences (2015), translator of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories into Slovak (2013) and the author of numerous articles, book chapters and a full monograph on Katherine Mansfield (2015).

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, UK. She earned her PhD (2007) from the University of Exeter, UK, for a thesis examining Katherine Mansfield’s reception in France. She is a co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies and is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015) and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16) and is currently co-editing a new, four-volume, complete edition of Mansfield’s letters.

Władysław Witalisz is a Professor in the English Department of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and earned his PhD (1996) and post-doctoral degree (2011) in English literature from the Jagiellonian University. He has published numerous articles on medieval romance, medieval religious literature and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Trojan Mirror: Middle English Trojan Narratives as Books of Princely Advice (2011).