Katherine Mansfield
a literary life
by Angela Smith
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"In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves - to spread over the flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I wrote with acid'. By focusing on Mansfield's position as a New Zealander, feeling herself to be an outsider in British literary life, this book explores how Mansfield's idiosyncratic Modernist aesthetic developed.
When she came in contact with a group of Fauvist artists and writers who were mostly not English, and not part of Bloomsbury, Mansfield began to create her sharp-edged stories, a literary Fauvism in search of the secret self. The book traces Mansfield's artistic and intellectural development, specifically linking her engagement with Post-Impressionism to readings of her most innovative and experimental stories."--BOOK JACKET.
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Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
January 6, 2001, Palgrave Macmillan
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Katherine Mansfield: a literary life
2000, Palgrave, Palgrave Macmillan
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166) and index.
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"The first entry in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks is 'Enna Blake', a story that she wrote when she was nine; it was published in The High School Reporter in Wellington, New Zealand, accompanied by the schoolgirl editor's comment that it 'shows promise of great merit'."
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