ISBN: 9780746310168

This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introdu… Mehr…

This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories informed by recent biographical, critical and editorial work onher life and on her stories, letters and notebooks. The study focuses on the question of the connection between life and writing in Mansfield''s work: it explores her engagements with issues of personal identity and elaborates her theory and practice of a poetics of impersonation whereby the identityof the author is merged with those of her characters. Bennett argues that Mansfield''s multiple and unstable identities and identifications are bound up with issues of colonialism, nationality, gender, and sexuality, and that they may be said to be embedded within the very texture of herprose. | Katherine Mansfield by Andrew Bennett Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Andrew Bennett<

ISBN: 9780746310168

This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introdu… Mehr…

This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield''s short stories informed by recent biographical, critical and editorial work onher life and on her stories, letters and notebooks. The study focuses on the question of the connection between life and writing in Mansfield''s work: it explores her engagements with issues of personal identity and elaborates her theory and practice of a poetics of impersonation whereby the identityof the author is merged with those of her characters. Bennett argues that Mansfield''s multiple and unstable identities and identifications are bound up with issues of colonialism, nationality, gender, and sexuality, and that they may be said to be embedded within the very texture of herprose. Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory List_Books, [PU: Northcote House]<

2004, ISBN: 9780746310168

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Liverpool University Press], Liverpool University Press, 2004