{"title":"‘Illness in Absence’: Mansfield and Murry's Collaborative Text: 19181","authors":"S. Kaplan","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000055","url":null,"abstract":"Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry's correspondence between January and April of 1918 can be read as a collaborative text in which each participant engages in the construction of a writing self. The text's narrative is teleological and the story it depicts is the heroic struggle of two lovers separated by fate in the forms of war and illness. The story's climax is the bombardment of Paris, and its denouement will be the wedding of its two lovers. Murry constructs his writing self as a poet, but his self-projection fails to coincide with his talents, although Mansfield encourages his aspirations. She wants to write ‘love prose’. Both writers link themselves with the Romantics, not only as poets but as people. This identification allows them to set themselves in opposition to Bloomsbury, especially to Lady Ottoline Morrell and Virginia Woolf. Murry's writing becomes delusionary due to exhaustion from his work at the War Office. Mansfield's entrapment in Paris during the bombardment is captured in ...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115545367","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":"Honorary President of the Katherine Mansfield Society","authors":"Vincent O’Sullivan","doi":"10.3366/E204145010900002X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E204145010900002X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130122124","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":"Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott, eds., The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 5, 1922–1923 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 376 pp., £63. ISBN 9780198183990","authors":"Clare Hanson","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127821049","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":"GUTS – Katherine Mansfield as a Reviewer","authors":"Angela Smith","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000043","url":null,"abstract":"The paper begins by engaging with recent reviews of volume five of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, challenging the principles on which the reviews were written and questioning the assumption of personal intimacy that reviewers, critics and biographers often make in relation to Mansfield. Her role as a reviewer for the Athenaeum is then analysed, principally using reviews that were not covered by Clare Hanson in her selection of Mansfield's critical writing. Initially the paper considers Mansfield's experience as a reviewer and editor during the Rhythm period, and the significance for her of the Fauvist aesthetic of that journal. Mansfield's ruthless scrutiny of the fiction of contemporaries is examined for what it reveals about her own practice, and is then applied to two particular themes in her fiction, the depiction of children and of the secret self, here specifically in relation to tuberculosis. The opportunities that were not offered to Mansfield, perhaps because she was seen as an une...","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127294648","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 French Philosophy: A Bergsonian Reading of Maata","authors":"E. Nakano","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000080","url":null,"abstract":"For several years from 1910, the French philosopher Henri Bergson was influential and popular in the UK as well as in France. Katherine Mansfield was one of the many writers working in Britain at that time who was inspired by Bergson. This paper aims to explore how she attempted to express her interpretations of Bergson's theory. In doing so, it offers a new reading of Mansfield's uncompleted ‘novel’ Maata, which has not attracted much critical attention to date. In Maata, Mansfield represents two phases of duration which Bergson discusses, that is, continuity and heterogeneity, by describing characters who are waiting to change. Although Mansfield failed in her attempt to complete a longer work of fiction, it could be said that in Maata, she did not fail to present her Bergsonian idea of duration, which was to remain as one of the key concepts in her later stories.","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115133710","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":"Gerri Kimber, Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008) 290 pp., £35 / €46.60. ISBN 9783039113927","authors":"Anne Mounic","doi":"10.3366/E2041450109000158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/E2041450109000158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":264945,"journal":{"name":"Katherine Mansfield Studies","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132970460","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}