Celebrating Katherine Mansfield A Centenary Volume of Essays [Hardcover]

A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity.Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Kimber? & J.Wilson PART I: BIOGRAPHICAL READINGS AND FICTION Signing Off: Katherine Mansfield's Last Year; V.O'Sullivan Katie and Chummie: Death in the Family; J.L.Mitchell 'A Furious Bliss': Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry 1916-1918; S.J.Kaplan? PART II: MANSFIELD AND MODERNITY Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within; E.Boehmer Leaping into the Eyes - Mansfield as a Cinematic Writer; S.Sandley Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century Echoes; D.da Sousa Correa? 'Is This Play?' Katherine Mansfield's Playframes; J.K.Stotz? PART III: PSYCHOANALYTICAL READINGS Katherine Mansfield's Uncanniness; C.Hanson? A Trickle of Voice: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Moment of Being; J.Paccaud-Huguet 'Ah, what is it? - that I heard'. The Sense of Wonder in Katherine Mansfield's Stories and Poems; A.Mounic Cold Brains and Birthday Cake: The Art of 'Je ne parle pas fran?ais'; A.Smith PART IV: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION 'Where is Katherine?': Longing and (Un)belonging in Katherine Mansfield's Art and Life; J.Wilson ? Mansfield and Dickens: 'I am not reading Dickens idly'; A.Smith 'Not always swift and breathless': Katherine Mansfield and the Familiar Letter; A.Jackson ? Meetings with 'The Great Ghost'; C.K.Stead? Select Bibliography Index

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ELLEKE BOEHMER Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UKDELIA DA SOUSA CORREA Senior Lecturer in English, Open University, UKCLARE HANSON Professor of English, University of Southl“%