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Re-forming World Literature : Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story.

Kimber, Gerri.

Re-forming World Literature : Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (327 pages) - Studies in World Literature ; v.6 . - Studies in World Literature .

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Global Modernisms -- Mansfield, Soma, and the Burning Dress of Modernism -- Of Parvenus and Pantheons: Mansfield's Short Fiction as a "Reading Back" -- The Art of Work: Katherine Mansfield's Servant and Perception -- UK and US Modernisms -- "Slippery British": Katherine Mansfield's Legacy in the UK -- "Kew Gardens" and "Miss Brill": Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield as Short Story Writers -- Katherine Mansfield's American Legacy: The Case of Margery Latimer -- Poetry, Suffering and the Self -- On First Looking into Mansfield's Heine: Dislocative Lyric and the Sound of Music -- Constructing Jealousy, Exacting Revenge: Katherine Mansfield's "Poison" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" -- Katherine Mansfield: Homeostasis, Equanimity, and Fiction -- Fairy Stories and War -- Katherine Mansfield, Fairy Tales and Fir Trees: "the story is past too: past! past!-that's the way with all stories" -- Consuming Identifications: Food Politics in Mansfield's "A Suburban Fairy Tale" -- Treasure and Rot: Preservation and Bequest in Mansfield's Short Fiction -- Death by Ink: The Symbolism of Ink in Katherine Mansfield's "The Fly" -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

9783838271132


Mansfield, Katherine,-1888-1923-Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PR9639.3.M258 .R446 2018

823.912

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