45 research outputs found
Dystopian visions in the avant-garde and modernist short story
No full textIf we view Modernism and Avant-gardism as artistic languages of rupture, then the renaissance of the short story form in the early twentieth-century often reflected this rupture and was utilized to considerable effect by certain authors. Incorporating literary experimentation, the genre’s potential for fragmentation, disturbance and complexity mirrors the dystopian worldview of the period in question. Sometimes reflecting a Bakhtinian notion of conflicting narrative voices, together with a Freudian concept of the uncanny, the short story would emerge as a radical avant-garde and modernist vehicle, questioning traditional forms, the importance of the narrator, and the overall relationship of the author to the reader. Wyndham Lewis, for example, in his own short stories, exemplified the Vorticist stances of detachment and dynamic form. Other writers whose stories reveal this experimental mode include James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair
“Not ‘Do you remember’, but ‘What if’?”
No full textShort story based on the author Katherine Mansfiel
“Not ‘Do you remember’, but ‘What if’?”
No full textShort story based on the author Katherine Mansfiel
Doreen D’Cruz, ‘Women, Time and Place in Fiona Kidman’s The Book of Secrets’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 42:3, September 2007, 63-81
No full textArticle review: In this absorbing article, Doreen D’Cruz considers New Zealand author Fiona Kidman’s 1987 novel, The Book of Secrets, from a feminist, dialogist and historiographical viewpoint, with reference to Kristeva, Bakhtin, Said, Friedman and Irigaray
Addicted to Mansfield: a glimpse at the Ruth Elvish Mantz Collection in Texas
No full textThis chapter discusses the Ruth Elvish Mantz Collection in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Mantz wrote the first biography of Mansfield in 1933, in conjunction with Mansfield’s husband, John Middleton Murry, who was brought in as a co-author by the publishers. The finished biography was not what she originally intended to write. She spent the rest of her life writing numerous unpublished manuscripts reworking the events of Mansfield’s life into book form. All her papers are now in Texas, and offer a fascinating insight into Mansfield’s first biographer
Katherine Mansfield: The View From France
No full textThis book assesses the reason why Katherine Mansfield's reputation in France has always been greater than in England. It examines the ways in which the French reception of Mansfield has idealised her persona to the extent of crafting a hagiography. Mansfield is placed within the general literary context of her era, exploring French literary tendencies at the time and juxtaposing them with the main literary trends in England. The author determines the motives behind the French critics' desire to put Mansfield on a pedestal, discusses how the three years she spent on French soil influenced her writing and whether the translations of her work collude in the myth surrounding her personality. This book is the first sustained attempt to establish interconnections between her own French influences (literary and otherwise) and the myth-making of the French critics and translators. The book also follows the critical appraisal of Mansfield's life and work in France from her death up to the present day, by closely analysing the differing French critical responses. The author reveals how these various strands combine to create a legend which has little basis in fact, thereby demonstrating how reception and translation determine the importance of an author's reputation in the literary worl
The correlation between child maltreatment and gang affiliation in metro Atlanta, 2012
No full textThis is a descriptive study of the relationship between exposure to childhood maltreatment and its impact on gang affiliation. It examines the relationship between child maltreatment and gang affiliation to assess if child maltreatment is a risk factor for gang membership. The results of the study suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship between childhood maltreatment, specifically neglect, and gang affiliation. This study and others like it can assist professionals such as social workers and law enforcement officials in providing prevention, intervention and other services to youth at risk of joining a gang and current gang members
Running a literary society: the Katherine Mansfield Society
No full textIf you have a favourite author, you may like to consider getting together with other like-minded people in order to establish a literary society, if one does not already exist. This is exactly what happened in 2008 with a group of KM scholars coming together, frustrated that there was no literary society to join. A literary society opens up all sorts of exciting collaborative opportunities for its members, and particularly the steering committee. Our first venture was to set up a website so we could start advertising ourselves - it is now the world’s largest hub for information on KM, attracting $NZ 20 000 of funding to date. We set up an annual literary journal, taken up by Edinburgh University Press in 2009, together with a newsletter, sent out to members 3 times a year. The committee is involved in all aspects of editing these publications and many of our members contribute regularly. We discovered that Dame Jacqueline Wilson, the children’s author, was a KM devotee; we contacted her and she is now our President, attending as many society events as she can. A literary society offers many different potential avenues for publication and for enhancing your CV, as we shall be demonstrating in this session
