The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 21
The appeal of Katherine Mansfield's work knows no geographical boundaries. All of her writings remain in print, she is widely read, taught, and anthologized throughout the world, and her work has been translated into diverse languages. The essays in this volume chart the response to Mansfield's work across time and place. Included are the earliest reviews of her writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as pieces exemplifying modern critical approaches to her work.\ Born in...
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Documents the critical reception of Mansfield's work from 1911 to the present.BooknewsThe critical response to Mansfield's work is as varied and extensive as the writing itself. This reference reproduces some of that criticism written in English and extending over a 100-year period from the most early fiction to contemporary performances and retrospective considerations. The introduction provides important biographical information within which the readings can be contextualized, particularly in terms of the international and literary scope of the writer's influence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Series ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsSelect Chronology of Mansfield WorksIntroductionAnonymous review of In a German Pension1The Story-Writing Genius1Anonymous review of Prelude, Bliss and Other Stories2Page Dr Blum!: Bliss5The Garden Party7The Short Story as Colour9Review of The Dove's Nest and Other Stories12A Prose-Writer's Poems14A Terribly Sensitive Mind16Katherine Mansfield19Toy Balloons: Novels and Novelists28Katherine Mansfield and Chekhov29from Katherine Mansfield32from Katherine Mansfield - A Critical Essay41The Art of Katherine Mansfield45Anonymous review of Katherine Mansfield's Stories48Katherine Mansfield53Katherine Mansfield: The Defeat of the Personal66A Living Writer70The Editing of Katherine Mansfield's Journal and Scrapbook77Katherine Mansfield's 'The Fly': A Critical Exercise82Katherine Mansfield's Self-Depiction89The Genesis and Development of the Katherine Mansfield Legend in France94Katherine Mansfield's Theory of Fiction103The Extant Manuscripts of Katherine Mansfield113Katherine Mansfield's Encounter with Theocritus119Katherine Mansfield: Tormentor and Tormented127The Magnetic Chain: Notes and Approaches to K.M.129Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Fiction155from Publications in Australia 1907-09172Katherine Mansfield's 'To Stanislaw Wyspianski'179Fantasy and the Sense of an Ending in the Work of Katherine Mansfield183from The Life of Katherine Mansfield191from The Birth of the Artist as Heroine: (Re)production, the Kunstlerroman Tradition, and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield195Katherine Mansfield: The Question of Perspectives in Commonwealth Literature197What is going to happen to us all? from Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life207Dancing on the Hand of God: Katherine Mansfield's Religious Sensibility211Performing Katherine Mansfield219Katherine Mansfield: A Chinese Perspective225Dear Katherine Mansfield from Dear Miss Mansfield: A Tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp232Select Bibliography235Index243
\ BooknewsThe critical response to Mansfield's work is as varied and extensive as the writing itself. This reference reproduces some of that criticism written in English and extending over a 100-year period from the most early fiction to contemporary performances and retrospective considerations. The introduction provides important biographical information within which the readings can be contextualized, particularly in terms of the international and literary scope of the writer's influence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
