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"Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in Europeand her own translations of other European writers; new biographical and critical interpretations of her early 'difficult' period in Bavaria and her connections to Poland; connections with other authors both contemporary and historical; notions of identity, the self, and 'home'; and finally a reinterpretation and reassessment of her stories set in Europe. Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe aims to fill a perceived gap in the market on Mansfield studies and will be of value for students, general readers and scholars of Mansfield alike"--
List of contents
Introduction PART I: RECEPTION 1. An 'utterly concrete and yet impalpable' Art: The Early Reception of Katherine Mansfield in Italy (1922-1952); Maurizio Ascari 2. Katherine Mansfield's Early Translations and Reception in Hungary; Nóra Séllei, 3. 'My dear, incomparable, priceless, Kate?ina Mansfieldová' - The Reception and Translations of Katherine Mansfield in (the former) Czechoslovakia; Janka Kascakova, PART II. POLAND AND GERMAN 4. 'That Pole outside our door': Floryan Sobieniowski and Katherine Mansfield; Gerri Kimber 5. Katherine Mansfield and Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski: Meeting Points; Miros?awa Kubasiewicz 6. Katherine Mansfield's Germany: 'these pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!'; Delia da Sousa Correa, PART III. CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER AUTHORS 7. 'Liaisons continentales': Katherine Mansfield, S.S. Koteliansky and the Art of Modernist Translation; Claire Davison 8. 'There is always the other side, always': Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's Travellersin Europe; Angela Smith, 9. The Beauchamp Connection; Jennifer Walker PART IV. IDENTITY, 'THE SELF' AND 'HOME' 10. 'How can one look the part and not be the part?': National Identity in Katherine Mansfield's 'An Indiscreet Journey', 'Je ne parle pas français', and 'Miss Brill'; Erika Baldt 11. 'Strange flower, half opened': Katherine Mansfield and the Flowering of 'the Self'; Kathryn Simpson 12. The 'dream of roots and the mirage of the journey': Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield; Patricia Moran PART V. REASSESSING THE FICTION 13. Katherine Mansfield's Stories 1909-1914: The Child and the 'Childish'; Janet Wilson 14. Katherine Mansfield and the Fictions of Continental Europe; C.K. Stead Bibliography Index
About the author
Maurizio Ascari, University of Bologna, Italy Erika Baldt, Burlington County College, New Jersey, USA Delia da Sousa Correa, Open University, USA Claire Davison, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, France Janka Kascakova, Catholic University in Ru omberok, Slovakia Gerri Kimber, University of Northampton, UK Miros?awa Kubasiewicz, University of Zielona Góra, Poland Patricia Moran, University of California, Davis, USA Nóra Séllei, University of Debrecen, Hungary Kathryn Simpson, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK Angela Smith, University of Stirling, UK C. K. Stead, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jennifer Walker, Independent Scholar, UK Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK
