Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Title | Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf PDF eBook |
Author | Gerri Kimber |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2018-08-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474439675 |
Reconsiders of Arendt's philosophy of natality in terms of biopolitical theory and feminism to defend women's reproductive choices
Katherine Mansfield
Title | Katherine Mansfield PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Smith |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2001-01-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780333618776 |
In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves--to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid." This book explores Mansfield's idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. Her sharp-edged fiction is discussed in relation to her involvement with Post-Impressionist painting and painters.
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Title | Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf PDF eBook |
Author | Nóra Séllei |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf were bound together by a tie alternately characterised as a «curious friendship» and an «uneasy sisterhood». Relying on feminist and poststructural critiques of thinking about writing and writers in terms of autonomous creative subjects, the book reconsiders the relationship between these writers from the biographical and the literary points of view. Their respective self-created models show the multiplicity within the paradigm of the «New Woman», and correspond with their divergent but complementary female modernisms. Mansfield's thematic femininity and Woolf's feminine textuality are integrated into contemporary feminist theory and women writers' creative practice: like Mansfield, they utter previously unutterable experiences but in a language that flows like Woolf's sentences.
Prelude
Title | Prelude PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Mansfield |
Publisher | Modernista |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2024-04-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 918094857X |
»Prelude« is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, first published in 1918. KATHERINE MANSFIELD, actually Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (later Murry), was born in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand, and died in 1923 as a result of her pulmonary tuberculosis at a hospital near Fontainebleau, France. Mansfield left her homeland at the age of 19 and moved to Europe. In London, she established herself as a writer and became friends with Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Rumour has it that the latter infected her with the lung disease that became her demise, at the young age of 35.
Modernist Short Fiction by Women
Title | Modernist Short Fiction by Women PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Drewery |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1317094514 |
Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story as a genre is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus offers an ideal platform from which to examine the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Embodying both liberation and restriction, liminal spaces on the one hand enable challenges to traditional cultural and personal identities, while on the other hand they entail the inevitable negative consequences of occupying the position of the outsider: marginality, psychosis, and death. Mansfield, Richardson, Sinclair, and Woolf all exploit this paradox in their short fiction, which typically explores literal and psychological borderline states that are resistant to rational analysis. Thus, their short stories offered these authors an opportunity to represent the borders of unconsciousness and to articulate meaning while also conveying a sense of that which is unsayable. Through their concern with liminality, Drewery shows, these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.
The Garden Party, and Other Stories
Title | The Garden Party, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Mansfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
Owl Song at Dawn
Title | Owl Song at Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Claire Sweeney |
Publisher | Legend Press Ltd |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1785079662 |
“Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel about familial love and stoicism in the face of heartbreak.”—Carys Bray, award-winning author of The Museum of You Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing 80, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognize the tenderness and heartbreak hidden beneath her spikiness. Until, that is, Vincent shows up. Vincent is the last person Maeve wants to see. He is the only man alive to have known her twin sister, Edie. The nightingale to Maeve’s crow, the dawn to Maeve’s dusk, Edie would have set her sights on the stage—all things being equal. But, from birth, things never were. If only Maeve could confront the secret past she shares with Vincent, she might finally see what it means to love and be loved—a lesson that her exuberant yet inexplicable twin may have been trying to teach her all along. Stylist Magazine Top “Books to Read on a Staycation” “Funny, heartbreaking and truly remarkable.”—Susan Barker, New York Times bestselling author “I found the novel most poignant and tender in its depiction of disability, without a whiff of sentimentality . . . it crept under my skill and will stay there for a long time.”—Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Grace Williams Says It Loud “Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving . . . an important and very beautiful book.”—Edward Hogan, Desmond Elliot Prize-winning author of Blackmoor “Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else.”—Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The Crime Writer