Katherine Mansfield and Russia
by Diment, Galya Gasston, Aimee Kimber, Gerri Martin, W. Todd
Attracting the interest of scholars of modernism and readers of Mansfield alike, Katherine Mansfield Studies offers fresh critical insights and new work by distinguished writers. Mansfield's passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered …
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- Full title :Katherine Mansfield and Russia / edited by Galya Diment, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin ; editorial assistant Aimee Gasston.
Summary
Attracting the interest of scholars of modernism and readers of Mansfield alike, Katherine Mansfield Studies offers fresh critical insights and new work by distinguished writers. Mansfield's passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered that the two of them shared the same deadly disease. But her fascination with Russia and its culture extended beyond Chekhov and included the Ballets Russes and an interest in Russian politics, in part sparked by Maxim Gorky. She also read and assimilated several other Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Marie Bashkirtseff as well as Leo Tolstoy. The essays in this volume engage with many aspects of Mansfield's response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In addition, the volume presents a collection of images of Gurdjieff's Institute at Fontainebleau, several of which have never been seen before. Book jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 226 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781474426138, 1474426131, 9781474426145, 147442614X, 1474426166, 9781474426169
- oclc:ocn971513812
- LC Classification:PR9639.3.M258
- Dewey Decimal:NZ823.2
Table of Contents
Introduction / Gayla Diment -- Criticism. 'Je ne parle pas français' : reading Mansfield's Underground man / David Rampton -- Post diagnosis : Bashkirtseff, Chekhov and Gorky through Mansfield's Prism of tuberculosis / Gayla Diment -- 'A child of the sun' : Katherine Mansfield, Orientalism and Gurdjieff / Gerri Kimber -- Near misses : from Gerhardi to Mansfield (and back), via Anton Chekhov / Claire Davison -- Mansfield, movement and the Ballets Russes / Ira Nadel -- At home among the Russians : the short stories of Olive Garnett and Katherine Mansfield / Frances Reading -- 'The only truth I really care about'. Katherine Mansfield at the Gurdjieff Institute : a biographical reflection / Pierce Butler -- Creative writing. Short story. 'The English visitor' / Owen Marshall -- Poetry. 'Tinakori Road' / Fleur Adcock -- 'Remedy' / Jessica Whyte -- Creative non-fiction. 'Chez Monsieur Gurdjieff' / Roger Lipsey -- Critical miscellany. The tree of knowledge : new insights on Mansfield, Oscar Wilde and 'a woman' / Giles Whiteley -- A note on some unidentified sources in Mansfield's reading from 1907 / Giles Whiteley -- Addicted to Mansfield : a glimpse at the Ruth Elvish Mantz collection i…
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