Katherine Mansfield and the Fantastic: Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 4

Delia da Sousa Correa; Gerri Kimber; Susan Reid; Gina Wisker

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

Katherine Mansfield and the Fantastic

Katherine Mansfield Studies, Volume 4

Delia da Sousa Correa , Gerri Kimber , Susan Reid and Gina Wisker

In the series Katherine Mansfield Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465878

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Fantastic and Gothic readings of Mansfield’s short stories present us with a covert, darker world, alongside seemingly familiar actions and events

This volume investigates an unexpectedly rich vein of literary gothic motifs and tropes found within Mansfield’s modernist, experimental prose. The essays investigate her development of the fairytale in several stories discloses how the ‘Cinderella’ story underpins ‘Her First Ball’, how ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ lurks beneath ‘The Little Governess’, and how the figure of the changeling inhabits ‘A Suburban Fairy Tale’. Mansfield’s explorations of the conscious and unconscious mind are elucidated through a discussion of Freud’s theory of the uncanny and the unsettling effects of language in Mansfield’s In A German Pension stories. Finally, the term ‘charm’ is revealed as spanning the two extremes of the fantastic and the ordinary which combine in Mansfield’s evocations of the enchantment of domestic interiors.

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Introduction Gina Wisker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Articles
The Little Red Governess: Mansfield and the Demythologisation of the Motif of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in ‘The Little Governess’ María Casado Villanueva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Katherine Mansfield’s Suburban Fairy Tale Gothic Gina Wisker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Mansfield’s Charm: The Enchantment of Domestic ‘Bliss’ Rishona Zimring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Ambivalence, Language and the Uncanny in Katherine Mansfield’s In a German Pension Andrew Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Lustful Fathers and False Princes: ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Donkeyskin’ Motifs in Wharton’s Summer and Mansfield’s Short Stories Christine Butterworth-McDermott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Creative Writing
POETRY W. H. Auden and Kay Mckenzie Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
DIARY Chris Price and Jessica Whyte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
PARODY A. K. Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
REPORT Gerri Kimber, C. K. Stead, Susan Reid, Angela Smith and W. Todd Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
REVIEWS Vara Neverow, Claire Davison-Pégon, Jenny McDonnell, Angela Smith, Gill Lowe and Ailsa Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 206
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: September 30, 2012
ISBN: 9781474465878