{"title":"Mansfield, Woolf and Music: ‘The queerest sense of echo’","authors":"Vanessa Manhire","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Both Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf repeatedly invoke music as a metaphor for writing. More than just a descriptive mechanism, music serves them as an explicit model for the development of stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. This article explores the importance of the idea of music to the literary projects of Mansfield and Woolf. After comparing Mansfield's extensive training in classical music with Woolf's assumed position as a ‘common listener’, it traces the deployment of musical analogies in their respective discussions of their own compositional processes as well as of modern fiction more generally. Finally it analyses a pair of short stories composed during the period of greatest interchange between the rival writers: in Mansfield's ‘The Singing Lesson’ and Woolf's ‘The String Quartet’, music is the catalyst for new representations of interiority and a key influence on the narrative practices of both writers.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"11 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":"131605027","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 beauty of your line – the life behind it’: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression","authors":"R. Bowler","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Katherine Mansfield's aesthetics and attitude to the relation between what she called ‘life’ and work, the visual and the intellectual. It emphasises doubleness both in Mansfield's selves and in her aesthetics, a doubleness which led her to experiment with the literary impression. ‘The Meaning of Rhythm’, that manifesto for the privileging of ‘life’ in art, is read as a manifesto for the primary impression. Mansfield's letters, particularly to the painter Dorothy Brett, are analysed for what they reveal about Mansfield's ideas about ‘life’ and the purely perceptual in art, and one can see her begin to formulate views on what painting should encompass, and what fiction can take from painting. Her review of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in the Athenaeum is set against the letters in an attempt to delineate her attitude toward the visual and the primary impression in fiction. Jesse Matz's theory of the ‘double impression’ is used as a key to understanding the dichotomy between percept...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"70 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":"123412842","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":"Sydney Janet Kaplan, Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 228 pp., ISBN 978 0 7486 4148 2","authors":"S. Raitt","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"13 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":"121213492","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":"Performativity in Words: Musical Performance in Katherine Mansfield's Stories","authors":"D. Correa","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2011.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2011.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is about musical performance in Mansfield and about the ‘performative’ in that her stories perform rather than merely invoke musical analogy. Many of Katherine Mansfield's musical stories make little direct reference to music. For my purposes here, I read four stories that do include specific accounts of musical performance and which therefore dramatise performative concerns that pervade Mansfield's work as a whole. Through its contemplation of the musicality of Mansfield's writing, the essay arrives at a sense of performativity in language that highlights the importance of affect: a notion of performative language fundamental to Mansfield's writing and much other.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"10 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":"124311341","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":"Katherine Mansfield and the Gardens of the Soul","authors":"M. Ascari","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the recent revival of critical interest in Mansfield's ‘In the Botanical Gardens’ (1907), much remains to be said concerning this brief story in terms of textual analysis and also of contextualisation, notably with regard to Mansfield's other early – and often fragmentary – attempts at writing fiction, but also to her mature works. This article focuses on this 1907 sketch in an attempt to explore its aesthetic contexts and political implications. It considers Mansfield's invocations of subjectivity and her pursuit of psychological insight, within a pattern that counterpoints nature and culture, rationality and the unconscious, individuality and wholeness, civilisation and the primitive, Europe and its others. A comparison with works by Walter Pater, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence completes the analysis of this story, which arguably played a pivotal role in Mansfield's literary development, and which offers us a vantage point to reassess the transition from aestheticism to impress...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133947110","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 Not Knowing","authors":"A. Cox","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The little girl in pink ran round in circles, round and round and round in her pink and white spotted hoodie and her cerise-coloured socks and trainers, round and round outside the family tent. Christian and Eva saw her from their VW traveller, as they sat in the front seats watching the sun go down, and Eva wondered what it would be like to have a family one day. Not long afterwards, Christian caught sight of her again, hand-in-hand with another child, the pair of them in pink pyjamas, prancing between the tents and camper vans. He was tempted to take a photograph. Later he wished that he had.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129143519","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 House","authors":"Kirsty Gunn","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0010","url":null,"abstract":"You could see right inside the little house. Coming down the street and stopping at the gate, there it was, set off to the side of the garden beside a big rhododendron bush covered with shocking pink blooms the size of a man’s fist. That might have prevented some people looking. But, Kassie realised, straight away, you could still easily see through the windows just by standing there. The flowers only made it seem at first that you might be private.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"21 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123518996","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":"Double Portrait: Katherine Mansfield and S. S. Koteliansky in the Garden","authors":"P. Jackson","doi":"10.3366/KMS.2010.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/KMS.2010.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133807470","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}