Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe Connections and Influences

by Kimber, Gerri; Kascakova, Janka

• ISBN13: 9781137429964
• ISBN10: 1137429968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in Europe and her own translations of other European writers; new biographical and critical interpretations of her early 'difficult' period in Bavaria and her connections to Poland; connections with other authors both contemporary and historical; notions of identity, the self, and 'home'; and finally a reinterpretation and reassessment of her stories set in Europe. Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe aims to fill a perceived gap in the market on Mansfield studies and will be of value for students, general readers and scholars of Mansfield alike.

Author Biography

Janka Kascakova is a senior lecturer at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia. Her publications include several articles and book chapters on Katherine Mansfield and J.R.R. Tolkien; she is the co-editor of Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien (2010), Does it Really Mean That: Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous (2011) and the translator of Katherine Mansfield's stories into Slovak.

Gerri Kimber, Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton, UK, is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-15). She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008).

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: RECEPTION
1.An 'utterly concrete and yet impalpable' Art: The Early Reception of Katherine Mansfield in Italy (1922-1952); Maurizio Ascari
2.Katherine Mansfield's Early Translations and Reception in Hungary; Nóra Séllei,
3. 'My dear, incomparable, priceless, Katerina Mansfieldová' – The Reception and Translations of Katherine Mansfield in (the former) Czechoslovakia; Janka Kascakova,
PART II. POLAND AND GERMAN
4.'That Pole outside our door': Floryan Sobieniowski and Katherine Mansfield; Gerri Kimber
5.Katherine Mansfield and Stanislaw Wyspianski: Meeting Points; Miroslawa Kubasiewicz
6.Katherine Mansfield's Germany: 'these pine trees provide most suitable accompaniment for a trombone!'; Delia da Sousa Correa,
PART III. CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER AUTHORS
7.'Liaisons continentales': Katherine Mansfield, S.S. Koteliansky and the Art of Modernist Translation; Claire Davison
8.'There is always the other side, always': Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's Travellers in Europe; Angela Smith,
9.The Beauchamp Connection; Jennifer Walker
PART IV. IDENTITY, 'THE SELF' AND 'HOME'
10. 'How can one look the part and not be the part?': National Identity in Katherine Mansfield's 'An Indiscreet Journey', 'Je ne parle pas français', and 'Miss Brill'; Erika Baldt
11.'Strange flower, half opened': Katherine Mansfield and the Flowering of 'the Self'; Kathryn Simpson
12.The 'dream of roots and the mirage of the journey': Writing as Homeland in Katherine Mansfield; Patricia Moran
PART V. REASSESSING THE FICTION
13.Katherine Mansfield's Stories 1909-1914: The Child and the 'Childish'; Janet Wilson
14.Katherine Mansfield and the Fictions of Continental Europe; C.K. Stead
Bibliography
Index