Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays

by Janet Wilson and Gerri Kimber

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349325651
• ISBN13: 9781349325658
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"