商品簡介
Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence seeks to understand influence, a powerful yet mysterious and undertheorised impetus for artistic production, by exploring Katherine Mansfield's wide net of literary associations. Mansfield's case proves that influence is careless of chronologies, spatial limits, artistic movements and cultural differences. Expanding upon theories of influence that focus on anxiety and coteries, this book demonstrates that it is as often unconscious as it is conscious, and can register as satire, yearning, copying, homage and resentment. This book maps the ecologies of Mansfield's influences beyond her modernist and postcolonial contexts, observing that it roams wildly over six centuries, across three continents and beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries.
Katherine Mansfield and Literary Influence identifies Mansfield's involvement in six modes of literary influence - Ambivalence, Exchange, Identification, Imitation, Enchantment and Legacy. In so doing, it revisits key issues in Mansfield studies, including her relationships with Virginia Woolf, John Middleton Murry and S. S. Koteliansky, as well as the famous plagiarism case regarding Anton Chekhov. It also charts new territories for exploration, expanding the terrain of Mansfield's influence to include writers as diverse as Colette, Evelyn Waugh, Nettie Palmer, Eve Langley and Frank Sargeson.
作者簡介
Dr Sarah Ailwood is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Associate Dean (Innovation) in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law, at the University of Canberra. While she trained as a lawyer, her PhD was on Jane Austen and she has published on women writers and life writing in Women's Studies International Forum, Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Kunapipi.
Dr Melinda Harvey is Lecturer in English at Monash University, Melbourne. She is the co-editor, with Deborah Pike and Gillian Sykes, of Curious Eyes: Sites and Scenes of Modernism (Colloquy, 2000) and the author of Dorothy Richardson's Modernist Encounters: Women, Writing, Place
