Katherine Mansfield and Russia

ISBN-13: 9781474426138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

Gerri Kimber; W. Todd Martin; Galya Diment

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This volume presents essays that engage with many aspects of Mansfield s response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In addition, the volume presents a collection of images of Gurdjieff s Institute at Fontainebleau, several of which have never been seen before.

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Introduction, Galya Diment; Part I: Criticism; 1. ‘Je ne parle pas français’: Reading Mansfield’s Underground Man, David Rampton; 2. Post Diagnosis: Bashkirtseff, Chekhov, and Gorky through Mansfield’s Prism of Tuberculosis, Galya Diment ; 3. ‘A child of the sun’: Katherine Mansfield, Orientalism and Gurdjieff, Gerri Kimber; 4. Near Misses: From Gerhardi to Mansfield (and back), via Anton Chekhov, Claire Davison; 5. Mansfield, Movement and The Ballets Russes, Ira Nadel; 6. At Home Among the Russians: The Short Stories of Olive Garnett and Katherine Mansfield, Frances Reading; 7. ‘The Only Truth I Really Care About’. Katherine Mansfield at the Gurdjieff Institute: A Biographical Reflection, Pierce Butler; Part II: Creative Writing; 8. Short Story, Owen Marshall: ‘The English Visitor’; 9. Poetry, Fleur Adcock: ‘Tinakori Road’, Jessica Whyte: ‘Remedy’; 10.Creative Nonfiction, Roger Lipsey: ‘Chez Monsieur Gurdjieff’; Part III: Critical Miscellany; 11. The Tree of Knowledge: New Insights on Mansfield, Oscar Wilde and ‘A Woman’, Giles Whiteley; 12. A Note on Some Unidentified Sources in Mansfield’s Reading from 1907, Giles Whiteley; 13. Addicted to Mansfield: A Glimpse at the Ruth Elvish Mantz Collection in Texas, Gerri Kimber; Part IV: Review Essay; 14. Katherine Mansfield in a Global Context, Rishona Zimring.