Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories / / Todd Martin, Enda Duffy, Gerri Kimber.

Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield’s BlissThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss’s publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield’s most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in rev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Katherine Mansfield Studies : KMS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Achieving Bliss
  • CRITICISM
  • The Well-Tempered Story: Experiments with Sound in ‘The Man Without a Temperament’
  • Refrigeration, ‘Bliss’ and the Modernist World Order of Imperial Culture
  • The ‘Little Savage from New Zealand’ in ‘Bliss’
  • Sublimity and Mansfield’s ‘Subjective Correlatives’ in ‘Bliss’
  • ‘We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be. But no more’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and the Queer Sublime
  • Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield’s Child Protagonists in ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sun and Moon’
  • Of ‘Trust’ and ‘Mistrust’: Reading the Mind of a Predator in ‘The Little Governess’
  • A NEW STORY
  • A Mysterious Lost Story by Katherine Mansfield
  • The Thawing of Anthony Wynscombe
  • CREATIVE WRITING
  • SHORT STORY
  • ‘Mari’
  • POETRY
  • ‘Is the Air Always Like This?’
  • ‘Leslie’
  • ‘Four Hours’
  • ‘The Ox’ and ‘Bertha’
  • ‘Read the World’
  • ‘In a Nutshell’
  • ‘At Katherine’s Bay’
  • ‘Your Secret Life’ and ‘On Reading the Poems of Katherine Mansfield’
  • ‘The Young Girl’
  • ‘The Open Home’
  • CRITICAL MISCELLANY
  • A Unique Perspective: Terry Stringer’s Sculpted Portraits of Katherine Mansfield
  • Such ‘rich unlawful gold’: Mansfield’s Semiotic Manoeuvres in ‘An Indiscreet Journey’
  • REVIEW ESSAY
  • Rhythm, Laughter and Spiritualism: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Search for Meaning
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index