Katherine Mansfield And Modernism

Author : Janet Wilson,Gerri Kimber,Susan Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441151544

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Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism by Janet Wilson,Gerri Kimber,Susan Reid Pdf

Katherine Mansfield's arrival in London in 1908 marked the start of her professional career as a writer and this study marks a revival of her reputation as one of the foremost practitioners of the short story. The international line-up of contributors attests to Mansfield's global appeal. By discussing her fiction in relation to her life, the contributors to this critical work present reinterpretations and readings. Enhanced by new transcriptions of manuscripts and access to her diaries and letters, these readings combine biographical approaches with critical-theoretical ones and focus not only on philosophy and fiction, but class and gender, biography/autobiography. The historical and aesthetic studies of Mansfield's work all take place within a framework of modernist literature, criticism and theory, thereby expanding our understanding of what it means to be a Modernist while allocating Mansfield a firm place in any current study of Modernism.

Author : da Sousa Correa Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9781474465854

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Katherine Mansfield and Modernism by da Sousa Correa Delia da Sousa Correa Pdf

New analysis of Katherine Mansfield's contribution to modernism, above all her underexplored relationship with D.H. LawrenceKatherine Mansfield and Modernism is given a distinct focus in this volume by an emphasis on her under-explored relationship with D. H. Lawrence, to whom, both as artist and person, she felt herself uncannily alike. In addition to investigating Mansfield's literary and biographical relationship with Lawrence, the essays for this volume examine widely varied aspects of Mansfield's modernism including her modernist revision of fairy-tale motifs, and the aesthetic, psychological and political contexts for her work. Further essays place her within a broader international and cultural framework, analysing her important relationship with modernist 'little magazines' and demonstrating how Mansfield and other artists from beyond Europe formed and developed literary modernism. The volume contains a preface and new short stories and poems by internationally-esteemed writers. The relationship between Mansfield and Lawrence is also given dramatic form in an original play-script first published in this volume and based on the period during 1916 when Mansfield and Murry shared a pair of remote cottages with Frieda and D. H. Lawrence at Zennor in Cornwall.

Author : Steffi Joetze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9783640944712

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Literary Modernism by Steffi Joetze Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: Modernism is widely acknowledged as probably the most important and influential artistic-cultural phenomenon of the twentieth-century, whether it is considered primarily as a movement, a period, a genre, a style or an ideology (cf. Poplawski 2003, p. 5). In order to find out what is so special about the literary period between 1901 and 1939 extra-literary developments and contexts as well as thematic and formal innovations according to modernism will be considered at first in this paper. Afterwards the modernist short story, as an important 'invention' of modernist writers, and its main characteristics and features are of interest. In this respect some writers of the modernist era, such as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson etc., and some of their short stories will be considered to get a completed picture of the topic. Katherine Mansfield, one of the great Modernist innovators of twentieth-century English literature, plays a central role in this regard. After a biographical overview her contribution to the 'invention' of the short story with special interest to characteristic features of her way of writing will be presented. Finally, the aim should be to explore how one of Katherine Mansfield's last short stories 'The Fly' can be used for English language teaching. At first a short plot summary and various kinds of interpretations are given to get at the real meaning of the story. Then a concrete example of classroom treatment, including a worksheet, will be dealt with. This worksheet gives attention to text gaps, which can be found within the short story, in the way that they can be seen as 'adjunctive structures' and can be used for text work in groups.

Author : Claire Drewery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781317094517

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Modernist Short Fiction by Women by Claire Drewery Pdf

Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story as a genre is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus offers an ideal platform from which to examine the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Embodying both liberation and restriction, liminal spaces on the one hand enable challenges to traditional cultural and personal identities, while on the other hand they entail the inevitable negative consequences of occupying the position of the outsider: marginality, psychosis, and death. Mansfield, Richardson, Sinclair, and Woolf all exploit this paradox in their short fiction, which typically explores literal and psychological borderline states that are resistant to rational analysis. Thus, their short stories offered these authors an opportunity to represent the borders of unconsciousness and to articulate meaning while also conveying a sense of that which is unsayable. Through their concern with liminality, Drewery shows, these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.

Author : Sydney Janet Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019427742

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Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction by Sydney Janet Kaplan Pdf

In opposition to traditional interpretations of the period, Kaplan (English, U. of Washington) asserts that women writers were at the center rather than on the margins of British modernism. She examines Mansfield's contribution to modernist fiction; her struggles as a writer during the era of modernist experimentation; and such issues as the problematics of genre, the encoding of sexuality, and the critical debate over impersonality. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Janet Wilson,Gerri Kimber,Susan Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1441184570

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Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism by Janet Wilson,Gerri Kimber,Susan Reid Pdf

Author : J. McDonnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230282049

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Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace by J. McDonnell Pdf

Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.

Author : Chris Mourant
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9781474439473

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Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant Pdf

This book considers Mansfield?s ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer by examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm and the literary journal The Athenaeum.

Author : Aimée Gasston,Gerri Kimber,Janet Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350135512

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Katherine Mansfield: New Directions by Aimée Gasston,Gerri Kimber,Janet Wilson Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Hendon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 0946650950

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Katherine Mansfield and Modernist Aesthetics by Anthony Hendon Pdf

"Though she shared many of the sensibliities of her eminent 'Bloomsbury Group' contemporaries such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, the New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield is much less widely discussed as a contributor to 1920s Modernism. By close analysis of stories from all five of her collections, Anthony Hendon considers Katherine Mansfield's place among the writers who brought new aesthetics to twentieth-century fiction."--Book cover.

Author : Julian Murphet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474416382

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Sounding Modernism by Julian Murphet Pdf

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. The individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes. Script, groove, electrical current, magnetic imprint, phonographic vibration: as the contributors show, sound traverses these and other material platforms to become an insistent ground-note of modern aesthetics, one not yet adequately integrated into critical accounts of the period. This collection also provides a commanding and wide-ranging investigation of the conditions under which modernists tapped technically into the rhythms, echoes and sonic architectures of their worlds.

Author : Aimée Gasston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030785444

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Modernist Short Fiction and Things by Aimée Gasston Pdf

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects. Looking at Woolf and armchairs, Mansfield and snack food, and Bowen and fashion accessories, it probes the aesthetic resonance between these stories’ form and contents and also considers the modes of thinking they might promote. Conceiving of their short fiction as intrinsically radical and experimental even within a wider context of modernist innovation, this book shows how these important women writers brought quotidian objects to riotous life, in such a way that tasked readers with reevaluating their everyday existence. Overall, Modernist Short Fiction and Things argues that short fiction epitomises modernist aesthetics, functioning as a resonant source for investigation and complementing and expanding our understanding of modernist epistemology.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521104211

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The Modernist Short Story by Dominic Head Pdf

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigourous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.

Author : Gerri Kimber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137483881

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Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story by Gerri Kimber Pdf

This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close textual analysis - to an understanding of the author's modernist techniques.

Author : da Sousa Correa Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 9781474465861

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Katherine Mansfield and the Arts by da Sousa Correa Delia da Sousa Correa Pdf

Reveals how Katherine Mansfield's understanding of art and music shaped and inspired her writingThis volume emphasises the centrality of Katherine Mansfield to the cultural life of her time, illuminating how her love of painting and of music inspired her art. The Fauvist paintings of the Scottish colourist F.D. Fergusson, the music of Debussy, and indeed, of Wagner, all helped to forge a precise aesthetic, founded above all on the intense study and - in the case of music - practice of artistic technique. The essays in this volume explore Mansfield's relationships with the visual arts and with music, bringing to light the way in which these helped to shape the formal qualities of her writing: its beauty of line and intensely musical effects. Mansfield's relationship with Woolf is also strongly in the frame. As befits a volume dedicated to the arts, there is an introduction, poetry and a new short story by highly-acclaimed writers who count Mansfield amongst their chief inspirations.