Katherine Mansfield and continental Europe : connections and influences / edited by Janka Kascakova, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Slovakia and Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimber, Gerri, Author.

Contributor:

Kaščáková, Janka, editor.

Kimber, Gerri, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Mansfield, Katherine.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Appreciation--Europe.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

European literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Fiction.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Literary History.

Fiction Literature.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Literary History.

Fiction Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

I: Reception

2 An 'utterly concrete and yet impalpable' Art: The Early Reception of Katherine Mansfield in Italy (1922-1952)

3 Katherine Mansfield's Early Translations and Reception in Hungary

4 'My dear, incomparable, priceless, Kateřina Mansfieldová' - The Reception and Translations of Katherine Mansfield in (the former) Czechoslovakia

II: Poland and Germany

5 'That Pole outside our door': Floryan Sobieniowski and Katherine Mansfield

6 Katherine Mansfield and Stanisław Wyspiański - Meeting Points

7 Katherine Mansfield's Germany: 'these pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!'

III: Connections with Other Authors

8 'Liaisons continentales': Katherine Mansfield, S. S. Koteliansky and the Art of Modernist Translation

9 'There is always the other side, always': Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's Travellers in Europe

10 The Beauchamp Connection

IV: Identity, the 'Self' and 'Home'

11 'How can one look the part and not be the part?': National Identity in Mansfield's 'An Indiscreet Journey', 'Je ne parle pas français', and 'Miss Brill'

12 'Strange flower, half opened': Katherine Mansfield and the Flowering of 'the Self'

13 The 'dream of roots and the mirage of the journey': Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield

V: Reassessing the Fiction

14 Katherine Mansfield's Stories 1909-1914: The Child and the 'Childish'

15 Katherine Mansfield and the Fictions of Continental Europe

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349492015

1349492019

9781137429971

1137429976

OCLC:

903140612