Katherine Mansfield

ISBN-13: 9781032058566 / Miękka / 2023 / 230 str.

Opis

This volume brings a fresh collection of original viewpoints on Katherine Mansfield’s life and work, both of which, in her own case, are frequently indistinguishable.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber and Władysław Witalisz

　

SECTION 1: THE POLISH KATHERINE MANSFIELD

‘From the other side of the world’: Katherine Mansfield, Poland and Poetry

Gerri Kimber

‘God the Father’: Stanisław Wyspiański and Katherine Mansfield

Wojciech Bałus

The Deed, the Dead and the Living Blood: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘To Stanislaw Wyspianski’ and Its Translation into Polish by Floryan Sobieniowski

Magda Heydel

Between Absence and Presence: On Katherine Mansfield’s Early Reception in Poland

Joanna Sobesto

SECTION 2: KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S CONNECTIVITY

Absence, Distance, and Influence: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals, Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry

Richard Cappuccio

Compassion and Moral Responsibility: Emma and ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’

Janka Kascakova

The Perils of Autobiography: Katherine Mansfield and the Case of George Gissing

Ann Herndon Marshall

Gendered Violence and Narrative Complicity in Katherine Mansfield and Leonard Woolf: ‘The Woman at the Store’ and ‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’

Elyse Blankley

Katherine Mansfield’s American Legacy: The Case of Dorothy Parker

Sydney Janet Kaplan

SECTION 3: ARTS, SPACES AND THE WRITING PROCESS

Making Music, Making Room: Musical Performances and the Construction of Space in the Works of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Anna Lawattanatrakul

Waves and ‘moment[s] of suspension’: Katherine Mansfield’s Painterly and Kinetic Language in Fiction

Tracy Miao

The Function of the Domestic Garden Space in ‘Prelude’ and ‘At the Bay’

Anna Kwiatkowska

On Being Chased By A Bull: Imagination, Writing and the Rush of the Short Story

Kirsty Gunn

Notes on Contributors

Index

O autorze

Janka Kascakova is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia, and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic, and earned her PhD in English literature (on Katherine Mansfield’s modernism) from the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (2007). She is the Vice-President of the Katherine Mansfield Society, co-editor of several volumes including Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences (2015), translator of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories into Slovak (2013) and the author of numerous articles, book chapters and a full monograph on Katherine Mansfield (2015).

Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in English at the University of Northampton, UK. She earned her PhD (2007) from the University of Exeter, UK, for a thesis examining Katherine Mansfield’s reception in France. She is a co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies and is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015) and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16)　and is currently co-editing a new, four-volume, complete edition of Mansfield’s letters.

Władysław Witalisz is a Professor in the English Department of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and earned his PhD (1996) and post-doctoral degree (2011) in English literature from the Jagiellonian University. He has published numerous articles on medieval romance, medieval religious literature and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Trojan Mirror: Middle English Trojan Narratives as Books of Princely Advice (2011).