359 research outputs found
An introduction to The Horse Whisperer
No full textAn introduction to The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evan
Reconfiguring the national canon: The Edinburgh edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield
No full textThis paper looks at how the new two volume edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, helps us to reassess the creativity of Katherine Mansfield. Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson’s essay on the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield makes clear how in recent years Mansfield has been ‘brought home’ to New Zealand by way of establishing her reputation as a writer of world significance. Those mid twentieth-century years of cultural nationalism, when Frank Sargeson could write that ‘Mansfield imposed this feminine thing on New Zealand’, and Allen Curnow in the Introduction to his milestone Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse could suggest that Mansfield has ‘something like shame for her country’, have long gone. Mansfield has been (re)instated as the country’s foremost writer; her proto-feminism is seen as one of her many qualities, and her in-between location as both a New Zealand writer and an Anglo-European modernist as a defining strength. Mansfield was a diasporic writer; so too for a number of years was Janet Frame. Both Mansfield and Frame are the most innovative and experimental writers New Zealand has produced. And both, of course, were women. The relation between these elements common to both writers, and their significance for New Zealand literary history, is something that still remains to be fully explored
Editing a Literary Classic, with Richard Canning, Peter Parker and Gerri Kimber
No full textA round table discussion on who decides which books are ‘literary classics’, who publishes them, how to edit one, and how to propel them into a crowded marketplace. Last year, Penguin Classics shocked everyone by agreeing to publish Morrissey’s Autobiography as an instant ‘Penguin Classic.’ Parker and Canning have both edited titles for the illustrious black-jacketed imprint – G F Green’s In the Making and Ronald Firbank’s Vainglory, respectively. Gerri Kimber has been editing Katherine Mansfield’s writings for Edinburgh’s Classics list. Come and learn about everything that can befall a Classics editor – from matters of copyright and censorship to Chinese typesetters, editors’ mistakes... and the sharp-toothed reviewers who can make, break... or ignore any new title
The Complete Poems of Katherine Mansfield
No full textInternational audienceCritical edition, fully annotated, co-edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Daviso
Katherine Mansfield as fiction writer
No full textA speech given at the book launch of the two volume Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, co-edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sulliva
The Complete Poems of Katherine Mansfield
No full textInternational audienceCritical edition, fully annotated, co-edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Daviso
Item on newly discovered Katherine Mansfield short stories in Kings College London archives on the 'Today Programme'
No full textPHD student Chris Mourant, who discovered the material and Gerri Kimber discuss the significance of the find on BBC Radio 4's ‘Today Programme’ (Invited speaker)
Treasure trove of Katherine Mansfield poems on 'Nine to Noon' programme
No full textGerri Kimber, the scholar who discovered nearly 30 unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield in a US library, which reveal much about the most painful periods of her life. Interview with Kathryn Ryan
Literary Gold: The Earth Child by Katherine Mansfield
No full textThis selection of poems was compiled by Mansfield in 1910 and sent to the London publisher Elkin Mathews in the second half of that year. It was bequeathed to the Newberry Library in Chicago, USA, by the estate of Jane Warner Dick (1906–1997) in 1999, where it remained unnoticed until discovered by Dr Gerri Kimber in May 2015 as she worked her way through the rich holdings of Mansfield materials held at the library. Dr Kimber will share details of her discovery at this special talk
Katherine Mansfield's poetic side on Standing Room Only
No full textAfter several discoveries of previously unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield in recent years, all her authenticated poetry has just been published for the first time in one collection. Co-editor, Mansfield scholar, Professor Gerri Kimber, came across a poetry cycle Mansfield wrote in 1910 while looking through documents in Chicago last year. As well as the collected poems, Gerri's just published a new biography about the writer's early years in New Zealand
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