{"title":"Parody‘Bliss! A New Mansfield’","authors":"A. Grant","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"692 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":"129912851","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":"Ambivalence, Language and the Uncanny in Katherine Mansfield's In a German Pension","authors":"A. Harrison","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0027","url":null,"abstract":"This essay uses an observation on the strangeness of language in the opening section of Freud's essay ‘Das Unheimliche’ to describe the unsettling effects created by the stories in Mansfield's first collection, In A German Pension. It relates the formal ambivalence of the stories to their thematic concern with deception and self-deception, insinuation and suspicion, showing how the reader is troublingly implicated in the processes of speculation and intrusion foregrounded in the narratives. The essay concludes by concentrating on Mansfield's technical concern with the disconcerting slippage of meaning between languages and the uncanny potential of mixed languages, erratic voices and ambiguous expressions.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"4 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":"130339244","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{"title":"From Wellington to Fontainebleau: Three Unpublished Letters by Katherine Mansfield","authors":"Gerri Kimber","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"2 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":"131825436","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":"Lustful Fathers and False Princes: ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Donkeyskin’ Motifs in Edith Wharton's Summer and Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories","authors":"Christine Butterworth-McDermott","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2012.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2012.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Although their work was stylistically different, Edith Wharton and Katherine Mansfield shared a concern over the danger of fairy-tale fantasies of rescue for their female readership. Wharton's Summer and several of Mansfield's stories – ‘A Cup of Tea’, ‘Her First Ball’, ‘The Young Girl’, and ‘A Dill Pickle’ – all subvert the fairy tale of ‘Cinderella’ by exposing how lustful fathers and false princes are detrimental to self-actualisation. Both Wharton and Mansfield's bittersweet narratives highlight the inequities of male and female sexual agency and show that in order for the female figure to grow, she must step away from the dominant male, whether father or prince. Wharton and Mansfield force the reader to question the ‘fantasy of deliverance by a man’ that ‘Cinderella’ projects, which is as Elizabeth Ammons puts it, ‘a culturally perpetuated myth of female liberation which in reality celebrates masculine dominance, proprietorship, and privilege’ (96).","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"39 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":"121503411","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":"A Literary Impressionist?: Mansfield's Painterly Vignettes","authors":"M. Reimer","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the constant recourse to different stylistic tendencies throughout her mature fiction, one of the most striking features of Katherine Mansfield's writing is its pictorial quality, which demonstrates a heightened aestheticism and a desire to realise painterly effects within a verbal or written medium – a concept which her diaries and letters reinforce. Her stories point towards a congruent knowledge of developments and trends in the visual arts, particularly Impressionism. While leading scholars have linked Mansfield to Impressionism, her work has been neither explored nor substantiated from an art-historical perspective. This essay draws on research into the concept of literary impressionism, alongside Mansfield's early exposure to painterly Impressionism in New Zealand and abroad. It aims to elucidate possible painterly sources for her highly pictorial prose and to consider the painterly quality of her work, shaped by that exposure, in several of her earliest stories. These demonstrate how early ...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133739752","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":"Lorae Parry, Bloomsbury Women & The Wild Colonial Girl: A Play About Katherine Mansfield (Wellington: The Women's Play Press, 2010), 43 pp., $22.50, ISBN 978 0 9582 3101 5","authors":"R. Fraser","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121736972","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":"‘As fastidious as though I wrote with acid’: Katherine Mansfield, J. D. Fergusson and the Rhythm Group in Paris","authors":"Angela Smith","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the cultural and political ferment in Paris exemplified by the Ballets Russes, and on its impact on Katherine Mansfield's writing when she was a member of the Rhythm group. She was engaged with Rhythm's mantra adapted from J. M. Synge's preface to his poems, ‘Before art can be human again it must learn to be brutal’, clearly expressed in its Fauvist illustrations. Mansfield's exposure to the dynamic aesthetics of the second wave of Fauvist painters, centred on the Scottish Colourist J. D. Fergusson, and to the work of Rhythm's young essayists, poets and writers of fiction, is contextualised within this turbulent period. Fergusson's brilliance as the art editor of Rhythm depended to some extent on his own interest in anti-colonial cultural nationalism, and on his opposition to rules, boundaries and conventional academic practices. Rhythm's editorial policy, expressed in the first issue, makes this explicit. Mansfield's stories first published in Rhythm will be discussed in relation ...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126100004","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":"Jenny McDonnell, Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 220 pp., £50/US $80, ISBN 978 0 2302 3479 6","authors":"Alissa G. Karl","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129179521","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}