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Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories / Todd Martin, Enda Duffy, Gerri Kimber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Katherine Mansfield Studies : KMSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 11 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474477307
  • 9781474477321
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  • 823.91209 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Achieving Bliss -- CRITICISM -- The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’ -- Refrigeration, ‘Bliss’ and the Modernist World Order of Imperial Culture -- The ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’ -- Sublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’ -- ‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime -- Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’ -- Of ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’ -- A NEW STORY -- A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine Mansfield -- The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe -- CREATIVE WRITING -- SHORT STORY -- ‘Mari’ -- POETRY -- ‘Is the Air Always Like This?’ -- ‘Leslie’ -- ‘Four Hours’ -- ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’ -- ‘Read the World’ -- ‘In a Nutshell’ -- ‘At Katherine’s Bay’ -- ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’ -- ‘The Young Girl’ -- ‘The Open Home’ -- CRITICAL MISCELLANY -- A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine Mansfield -- Such ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for Meaning -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield’s BlissThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss’s publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield’s most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Achieving Bliss -- CRITICISM -- The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’ -- Refrigeration, ‘Bliss’ and the Modernist World Order of Imperial Culture -- The ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’ -- Sublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’ -- ‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime -- Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’ -- Of ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’ -- A NEW STORY -- A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine Mansfield -- The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe -- CREATIVE WRITING -- SHORT STORY -- ‘Mari’ -- POETRY -- ‘Is the Air Always Like This?’ -- ‘Leslie’ -- ‘Four Hours’ -- ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’ -- ‘Read the World’ -- ‘In a Nutshell’ -- ‘At Katherine’s Bay’ -- ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’ -- ‘The Young Girl’ -- ‘The Open Home’ -- CRITICAL MISCELLANY -- A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine Mansfield -- Such ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for Meaning -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield’s BlissThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss’s publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield’s most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)

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