{"title":"Katherine Mansfield's Suburban Fairy Tale Gothic","authors":"G. Wisker","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Explorations of ways in which literary modernists use the Gothic only rarely consider the work of Katherine Mansfield among other women writers of the period. However, Mansfield's stories often use defamiliarisation, a popular feature of the Gothic which moves readers through estrangement to see situations and people anew. Mansfield's use of the Gothic can be seen to expose and explore social relationships and states of being, and do so using a rich mixture of narrative formulae and techniques, influenced by fairy tales and myth. This essay considers such techniques in a range of Mansfield's short stories and poems, before focusing on the story ‘A Suburban Fairy Tale’, which builds on the traditional tale of the changeling to expose selfishness, hypocrisy, suburban complacencies, self-deception and culpable child neglect.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134450589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Wasp’-ishness in Mansfield's ‘The Breidenbach Family in England’","authors":"W. Martin","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116453455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Little Red Governess: Mansfield and the Demythologisation of the Motif of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in ‘The Little Governess’","authors":"M. Villanueva","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Katherine Mansfield's interest in the literary rendering of subjective perspectives manifests a more general modernist questioning of a realist mode of representation, and her deployment of fantasy and fairy tale elements in her stories often testifies to a desire to account for a more complex portrayal of experience. However, fantasy can also be, for Mansfield's characters, ‘a deceiving friend’.1 This article seeks to analyse the ways in which Mansfield deploys the fairy tale motif of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in her story ‘The Little Governess’ (1915). The notions provided by Jack Zipes's socio-historical approach to the fairy tale foreground the transformations that ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ underwent in the process of being recorded, and the relevance of the ideological bias imposed on the most popular literary versions. In ‘The Little Governess’, Mansfield's refashioning of the tale already shows an acute awareness of the role of fairy tales as socialising agents, more specifically as perpetuators of g...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130259760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sue Orr, From Under the Overcoat (Auckland: Random House, 2011), 348 pp., NZ$29.95, ISBN 978 1 8697 9057 8","authors":"A. Cox","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"29 32","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133052846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mansfield's Charm: The Enchantment of Domestic ‘Bliss’","authors":"Rishona Zimring","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Mansfield's fiction both illustrates and fulfills the modern longing for enchantment, and it acquires fantastic qualities in its insistence upon what Janet Lyon calls ‘creative practices of re-enchantment’. Mansfield's charm comes into sharp focus in two stories about the domestic interior's potential for strangeness and transformation: ‘Feuille d'Album’ and ‘Bliss’. These stories encourage newfound appreciation for the talismanic power of ordinary objects and the enchantment harbored in arrangements of domestic space. In these explorations of charmingly uncanny interiors, Mansfield's fiction guides readers to accept that what Max Weber called the ‘great art’ of modernity can be found in creative practices of everyday life. In writing the domestic art of the pianissimo, Mansfield fosters a sense of art and fantasy not as escapes from reality, but as transformations of it in flickers and glowing embers. Mansfield is therefore a modernist celebrant of the possibilities of domesticity, the transformative cre...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"116 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122972408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}