Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence Contributor(s): Ailwood, Sarah (Editor), Harvey, Melinda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0748694412 ISBN-13: 9780748694419 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 823.9 |
LCCN: 2015374990 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Provides new reflections on literary influence using Katherine Mansfield as a case study Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence seeks to understand influence, a powerful yet mysterious and undertheorised impetus for artistic production, by exploring Katherine Mansfield's wide net of literary associations. Mansfield's case proves that influence is careless of chronologies, spatial limits, artistic movements and cultural differences. Expanding upon theories of influence that focus on anxiety and coteries, this book demonstrates that it is as often unconscious as it is conscious, and can register as satire, yearning, copying, homage and resentment. This book maps the ecologies of Mansfield's influences beyond her modernist and postcolonial contexts, observing that it roams wildly over six centuries, across three continents and beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries. Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence identifies Mansfield's involvement in six modes of literary influence - Ambivalence, Exchange, Identification, Imitation, Enchantment and Legacy. In so doing, it revisits key issues in Mansfield studies, including her relationships with Virginia Woolf, John Middleton Murry and S. S. Koteliansky, as well as the famous plagiarism case regarding Anton Chekhov. It also charts new territories for exploration, expanding the terrain of Mansfield's influence to include writers as diverse as Colette, Evelyn Waugh, Nettie Palmer, Eve Langley and Frank Sargeson.
Sarah Ailwood is Assistant Professor in the School of Law & Justice at the University of Canberra, Australia. Melinda Harvey is Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.
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