Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction / / Sydney J. Kaplan.
This book explores Katherine Mansfield's significance as a writer whose fiction and criticism influenced, reflected, and advanced modernist aesthetic principles. Sydney Janet Kaplan examines the relationship between Mansfield's contribution to modernist fiction and her struggles as a woman...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Problem of Oscar Wilde
- 3. Sexuality Encoded
- 4. “The Strange Longing for the Artificial”
- 5. “A Gigantic Mother”: Mansfield and the City
- 6. The Question of Genre
- 7. From The Aloe to “Prelude”
- 8. The Feminist Imperative
- 9. Mansfield and Woolf: The Question of Feminist Aesthetics
- 10. Impersonation/Impersonality
- 11. Katherine Mansfield’s “Passion for Technique”
- 12. Conclusion: Modernism from Mansfield’s Perspective
- Selected Bibliography
- Index