Katherine Mansfield And Virginia Woolf

Zusatztext A perecptive new study of their friendship - Elizabeth Lowry! TLS 16th July 1999 Informationen zum Autor Angela Smith is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Stirling. Klappentext Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by Mansfied in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, Angela Smith explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Writing at a time when the First World War and the changing attitudes towards empire problematized definitions of foreignness, the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterized by moments in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, the domestic made menacing. Zusammenfassung Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by Mansfield in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, Smith explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection of modernism is interpreted through their shared experience as `threshold people', familiar with the liminal, for each of them a zone of transition and habitation. Writing at a time when the First World War and changing attitudes to empire problematized boundaries and definitions of foreignness, we see how the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterized by moments of disorienting suspension in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, the domestic made menacing.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Smith
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780198183983
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818398-3
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 223 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, United Kingdom, Great Britain, East Asia, Far East, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, British Isles, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form