Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism / edited by Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Susan Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Reid, Susan, editor.

Wilson, Janet, 1948- editor.

Series:

Historicizing modernism.

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Modernism (Literature)--Congresses.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This unique work analyzes the crisis in modern society, building on the ideas of the Frankfurt School thinkers. Emphasizing social evolution and learning processes, it argues that crisis is mediated by social class conflicts and collective learning, the results of which are embodied in constitutional and public law."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction / J. Lawrence Mitchell

Mansfield and Modernism I: Philosophy and Fiction. Chapter 1. Mansfield, Rhythm and the Émigré Connection / Gerri Kimber ; Chapter 2. Katherine Mansfield, Rhythm and Henri Bergson / Eiko Nakano ; Chapter 3. 'The Famous New Zealand Mag.-Story Writer' : Katherine Mansfield, Periodical Publishing and the Short Story / Jenny McDonnell ; Chapter 4. Authentic Existence and the Characters of Katherine Mansfield / Miroslawa Kubasiewicz

Mansfield and Modernism II: Self, Voice and Other. Chapter 5. The Elusiveness of Reality : The Limits of Cognition in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories / Joanna Kokot ; Chapter 6. Un-Defining the Self in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield / Nancy Gray ; Chapter 7. '- Ah, what is it? - that I heard' : Voice and Affect in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fictions / Anne Besnault-Levita ; Chapter 8. Kezia in Wonderland / Delphine Soulhat

Mansfield: Class and Gender. Chapter 9. 'The Women in the Stor(y)' : Disjunctive Vision in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Aloe' / Bruce Harding ; Chapter 10. 'A City of One's Own' : Women, Social Class and London in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories / Ana Belén López Pérez ; Chapter 11. 'My Insides Are All Twisted Up' : When Distortion and the Grotesque became 'the Same Job' in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf / Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Isabel María Andrés Cuevas ; Chapter 12. 'On the Subject of Maleness' : The Different Worlds of Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence / Susan Reid

Mansfield: Biography/Autobiography. Chapter 13. The Mansfield Legacy / Kathleen Jones ; Chapter 14. 'My Many Selves' : A Reassessment of Katherine Mansfield's Journal / Valérie Baisnée ; Chapter 15. 'Blue with Cold' : Coldness in the Works of Katherine Mansfield / Janka Kaščáková ; Chapter 16. Katherine Mansfield's Menagerie / Melinda Harvey.

Notes:

Papers from an international three day conference, University of London, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613089144

9781472543127

1472543122

9781283089142

1283089149

9781441151544

1441151540

OCLC:

721194770