Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield''s Writing

Informationen zum Autor Maurizio Ascari is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. His previous publications include A Counter-History of Crime Fiction (2007) and Literature of the Global Age (2011). He has also edited and translated works by Katherine Mansfield, Henry James and William Faulkner. Klappentext Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted. Zusammenfassung Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation! this book discusses not only a single case study! but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Mansfield, Silent Film and Post-Impressionism 2. Beyond Impressionist Subjectivity 3. Ideological Stances and Aesthetic Concerns 4. Mansfield's Post-war Reappraisal of Cinema 5. Sensory Deprivation and Inner Probing Conclusion Bibliography Index

List of contents

Introduction 1. Mansfield, Silent Film and Post-Impressionism 2. Beyond Impressionist Subjectivity 3. Ideological Stances and Aesthetic Concerns 4. Mansfield's Post-war Reappraisal of Cinema 5. Sensory Deprivation and Inner Probing Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the author

Maurizio Ascari is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. His previous publications include A Counter-History of Crime Fiction (2007) and Literature of the Global Age (2011). He has also edited and translated works by Katherine Mansfield, Henry James and William Faulkner.

Product details

• Authors: M Ascari, M. Ascari, Maurizio Ascari
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2014
• EAN: 9781137400352
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40035-2
• No. of pages: 108
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; C, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Film History, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism