Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story
Author: Gerri Kimber
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137483881

This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close textual analysis - to an understanding of the author's modernist techniques.

The Garden Party

The Garden Party
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1922
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

At the Bay

At the Bay
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1425013279

The narration delves on the living and values of a large family in New Zealand. With trivial details of characters such as personality, gestures and attitudes, Mansfield has managed to delve into the psychology of characters and produce individuals that instantly capture attention. A must-read....

The Art of the Short Story

The Art of the Short Story
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 926
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780321363633

"52 great authors, their best short fiction, and their insights on writing"--Cover.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781840222654

This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.

Katherine Mansfield and the Arts

Katherine Mansfield and the Arts
Author: da Sousa Correa Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Art and literature
ISBN: 1474465862

Reveals how Katherine Mansfield's understanding of art and music shaped and inspired her writingThis volume emphasises the centrality of Katherine Mansfield to the cultural life of her time, illuminating how her love of painting and of music inspired her art. The Fauvist paintings of the Scottish colourist F.D. Fergusson, the music of Debussy, and indeed, of Wagner, all helped to forge a precise aesthetic, founded above all on the intense study and - in the case of music - practice of artistic technique. The essays in this volume explore Mansfield's relationships with the visual arts and with music, bringing to light the way in which these helped to shape the formal qualities of her writing: its beauty of line and intensely musical effects. Mansfield's relationship with Woolf is also strongly in the frame. As befits a volume dedicated to the arts, there is an introduction, poetry and a new short story by highly-acclaimed writers who count Mansfield amongst their chief inspirations.

My Katherine Mansfield Project

My Katherine Mansfield Project
Author: Kirsty Gunn
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1910749354

In 2009, Kirsty Gunn returned to spend the winter in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, also the place where Katherine Mansfield grew up. In this exquisitely written “notebook,” which blends memoir, biography, and essay, Gunn records that winter-long experience and the unparalleled insight it allowed her into Mansfield’s fiction. Gunn explores the idea of home and belonging—and of the profound influence of Mansfield’s work on her own creative journey. She asks whether it is even possible to “come home”—and who are we when we get there?

Short Story

Short Story
Author: Paul March-Russell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 074863214X

This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction.In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. European innovators such as Chekhov, Flaubert and Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver.Fresh attention is paid to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature. Critical approaches to the short story are debated and reassessed, while discussion of the short story is related to contemporary critical theory. In what promises to be essential reading for students and academics, the study sets out to prove that the short story remains vital to the emerging culture of the twenty-first century.

Prelude

Prelude
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9176393488

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. ‘Prelude’ (1922) is evidence of Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction genius, and it was the first short story that Virginia Wolf commissioned for her publishing house. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.