Katherine Mansfield and Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Diment, Galya; Martin, W. Todd; Kimber, Gerri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the 'Russian influence' on both Mansfield's craft as a short story writer and her life choicesKatherine Mansfield's passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters and notebooks. Anton Chekhov was not just one of her most significant literary influences, but also a mythological presence with whom she mentally communicated every day. The emotional bond became even stronger when she discovered that the two of them shared the same deadly disease. But her fascination with Russia and its culture extended beyond Chekov and included the Ballets Russes and an interest in Russian politics, in part sparked by Maxim Gorky. She also read and assimilated several other Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky and Marie Bashkirtseff as well as Leo Tolstoy. This volume presents essays that engage with many aspects of Mansfield's response to all things Russian as well as to the Russians she met in England and France. In addition, the volume presents a collection of images of Gurdjieff's Institute at Fontainebleau, several of which have never been seen before.Key FeaturesIt includes contributions by both English and Russian scholarsMansfield's personal and artistic response to Russian literature, culture, philosophy, and artExplores her responses to the actual Russians she met in England and - towards the end of her life - in France

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474426169
• Artikelnr.: 54668999

Autorenporträt

Galya Diment is Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor in Western Civilization at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of three books, among them A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky (2011), editor or co-editor of another three, and has published more than forty articles. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and is co-editor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the deviser and series editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2016) and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story. A Professor of English at Huntington University, Todd Martin's primary areas of interest are twentieth century British and American literature. He has published articles on such varied authors as John Barth, E. E. Cummings, Clyde Edgerton, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Sherwood Anderson and Katherine Mansfield. He is the editor of the forthcoming Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group.