Name: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of two (Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover)) (in English)
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9780198183983

portada Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of two (Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover)) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher

Oup Oxford

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0198183984

ISBN13

9780198183983

Edition No.

Synopsis "Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of two (Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover)) (in English)"

Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) described being haunted by Mansfield in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, Smith explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection of modernism is interpreted through their shared experience as `threshold people', familiar with the liminal, for each of them a zone of transition and habitation. Writing at a time when the First World War and changing attitudes to empire problematized boundaries and definitions of foreignness, we see how the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterized by moments of disorienting suspension in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, the domestic made menacing.

Katherine Mansfield

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(Nueva Zelanda, 1888 - Francia 1923) Pseudónimo de Kathleen Beauchamp. Narradora neozelandesa que cultivó la novela corta y el cuento breve, convirtiéndose en una de las autoras más representativas del género. En sus obras destacan las pulsiones vitales de los humanos y su choque con las imposiciones sociales, y las descripciones del mundo aristocrático. Se la considera una importante figura del modernismo literario.

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