Mansfield's Work Research Articles

Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant

Reviewed by: Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant Carey Snyder KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND PERIODICAL CULTURE, by Chris Mourant. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 312 pp. $125.00 cloth; $103.66 ebook. Combining deep knowledge of Katherine Mansfield's work and life with a rich understanding of the magazines in which she forged her career, Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture by Chris Mourant offers fresh insight into a wide swath of Mansfield's writings. He adeptly traces the [End Page 169] publication histories and the intellectual and aesthetic debates of those magazines with which she was most closely involved, enriching and complicating our understanding of Mansfield's professional development. He shines a spotlight on neglected aspects of her oeuvre—such as her book reviews, satirical sketches, and pseudo-translations of Russian poetry—while unearthing two previously unpublished works in the archives: "Bites from the Apple" (1911) and "A Little Episode" (1909). A valuable resource to future scholars, these short works are appended to the book, along with a comprehensive list of Mansfield's periodical publications. Periodicals have been a valuable resource for scholars of women's print culture, making visible neglected writers, print venues, and genres. Attesting to the robust interest in this area over the past decade are monographs on middlebrow magazines (for example, Catherine Keyser's 2010 Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture and Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith's 2015 work Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture: Canadian Periodicals in English and French, 1925-1960), gender in the socialist press (specifically, Rachel Schreiber's 2011 publication Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: The Modern Figures of the "Masses"), and feminist and suffrage periodicals (notably Maria DiCenzo, Lucy Delap, and Leila Ryan's 2011 publication Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere; Catherine Clay's 2018 Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine; and Barbara Green's 2017 Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture), among others. These studies have given us a much richer appreciation of the diversity of women's writing in the period than one gleans from many modernist anthologies—unearthing obscure figures worthy of our attention and enriching our understanding of canonical ones by shedding light on networks of literary production and reception and on the cultural conversations in which this writing was embedded. Mansfield—once read as an apolitical writer, disengaged from her time—has particularly benefited from recontextualization of her work. Scholars have shown that her work dialogically engages with the ideas and aesthetics of the periodicals in which she published. They have traced the way it responds to socialist and feminist politics (Lee Garver's 2001 Lost Politics: "The New Age" and the Edwardian Socialist Roots of British Modernism); Fauvist aesthetics (Angela Smith's 2000 Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life); metropolitan primitivism (Carey Snyder's 2014 article "Katherine Mansfield, Rhythm, and Metropolitan Primitivism"); colonialism and internationalism (Janet Wilson and Gerri Kimber's 2011 collection Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays; Anna Snaith's 2014 Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945; Richard Cappuccio's 2014 "War Thoughts and Home: Katherine Mansfield's Model of a Hardened Heart in a Broken World"); and the [End Page 170] pressures of the marketplace and of sometimes combative literary networks (Faith Binckes's 2010 Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-Garde: Reading Rhythm, 1910-1914; Sydney Janet Kaplan's 2010 Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence; Jenny McDonnell's 2010 Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public; and Snyder's 2010 article "Katherine Mansfield and the New Age School of Satire"). A book-length study of Mansfield's periodical context was overdue, and Mourant's book rises to the occasion, navigating a lively tradition of scholarship that stretches back nearly two decades, while making a number of original contributions to the field. Much like Jean Rhys studies, Mansfield scholarship often has been bifurcated into studies that position her work within a metropolitan-modernist framework and those that focus on its colonial/settler context. Mourant avoids this tendency by reading Mansfield through a transnational lens, responding...

Race and the Modernist Imagination

Race and the Modernist Imagination

UMA ARMADILHA PERFEITA: O OLHAR EXOTÓPICO EM “JE NE PARLE PAS FRANÇAIS” DE KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Endowed with extreme lyricism and keen sensitivity, Katherine Mansfield's work marked a generation of writers of the early twentieth century and solidified her base among literary productions in English. In a time when private and intimate universe was reserved to women’s social relationships, the writing of Katherine Mansfield comes to reveal the hidden side of this public universe, so essential to the knowledge of ourselves. From this psychological clarification, ordinary facts of everyday life take on new perspectives in focus of a character in constant self-assertion. This is the case of the short story “Je ne parle pas Francais”, whose character-narrator Raoul Duquette presents an ambiguous and seductive speech, therefore, fraught with subliminal traps able to attract fragile and innocent preys. Based on the discursive manipulation from one who tells his own story and on the distance in space / time between the experience and the reporting, this paper aims to analyze the short story with regard to the point of view and to the symbolism of the dog and the mouse to, finally illustrate the (de)construction of the notion of gender. For this purpose, we apply the concept of exotopia, by Mikhail Bakhtin, in order to check the exceeding view in the space / time of a first-person narrator.

Performativity in Words: Musical Performance in Katherine Mansfield's Stories

This essay is about musical performance in Mansfield and about the ‘performative’ in that her stories perform rather than merely invoke musical analogy. Many of Katherine Mansfield's musical stories make little direct reference to music. For my purposes here, I read four stories that do include specific accounts of musical performance and which therefore dramatise performative concerns that pervade Mansfield's work as a whole. Through its contemplation of the musicality of Mansfield's writing, the essay arrives at a sense of performativity in language that highlights the importance of affect: a notion of performative language fundamental to Mansfield's writing and much other.

D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Happiness

This essay identifies an allusion contained in a remark made by D. H. Lawrence about the similarity of Katherine Mansfield's work to that of Dickens. It traces the origin of Lawrence's allusion, arguing that Lawrence specifically links Mansfield's writing with Dickens's Christmas book The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), in which a lively, speaking kettle plays a key part in emphasising the comforts of domesticity, offering an image of well-being set against the harshness of winter. Lawrence linked Mansfield to this scene because it highlighted notions of happiness that were central to their literary relationship as explored by this article. Working from this allusion, parallels emerge in the way that both writers were preoccupied with the transience of happiness (as in a Christmas tale), but also in that they sought similar means of overcoming this transience. Echoes between Mansfield's ‘Bliss’ (1918) and Lawrence's Women in Love (1920) reveal close linguistic affinities between the two writers: each emphasises ‘stillness’, attempting to pause narrative and to dwell on moments of contentment. The essay highlights a coincidence of concerns between Mansfield and Lawrence, offering new insights into their friendship and their closeness as writers.

Katherine Mansfieldová: The Reception of Katherine Mansfield in the Countries of Former Czechoslovakia

Katherine Mansfield's short stories have enjoyed a presence in both parts of the former Czechoslovakia since the 1930s, in the form of translations for periodicals. The first collection of her stories in book form is also from this period, although, probably for cultural and linguistic reasons, appears only in Czech, as do three subsequent collections published between the 1950s and 1970s. In terms of critical assessment, Mansfield's work has not been systematically studied. Criticism consists mainly of book reviews, prefaces to collections of her stories, dust cover blurbs and brief paragraphs introducing the translations of stories in magazines. This paper presents and analyses material gathered during research in the Czech and Slovak National Libraries.

Community health practitioner’s practice guideline for a changing health care: Korean contribution

The specific aims of the study were (1) to identify community residents' health problems and community health practitioners' activities, (2) to explore community health practitioners' perception of the practice guidelines and (3) to provide recommendations for the development of a new practice guideline in the future. Community health practitioners in Korea are recognised as a critical component of the public health workforce in rural areas. Community health practitioners are registered nurses with six months special training, who have the chief responsibility of delivering primary health care to remote or isolated communities. Although there has been numerous changes in focus of community health practitioners practice over the two decades, community health practitioners guidelines have never been updated since being first developed in 1981. This investigation employed a cross-sectional survey and focus group interview. The samples included two different groups: 1003 community health practitioners participated in a survey and a group of 12 community health practitioners participated in a focus group interview. A measure of perception of the guideline was developed from Mansfield's work. Goolsby's criteria were revised and used to guide the focus group interview. The participants recognised that the role of community health practitioners is in a process of transition and expect to use well developed guidelines that will allow an appropriate response to the needs of the community. Community health practitioners are generally supportive of practice guidelines although they report various contextual, social and resource barriers to the use of practice guidelines. Finally, the researchers have provided recommendations for the development of new community health practitioners practice guidelines. A newly developed community health practitioners guideline should assist in articulating new roles and responsibilities in the practice of community health practitioners and establish a foundation for knowledge, skills and training necessary for them to work independently. New services made available for under-recognised health problems may be a direct outcome of newly developed guidelines.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A review is given of the crucial work performed by Paul C. Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield that lead to their being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003. Lauterbur first expounded the idea of mapping spatial information from spectral data in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) through the application of magnetic field gradients (P. C. Lauterbur, Nature 1973, 242, 190-191). One year later Mansfield and co-workers introduced the idea of selective excitation to NMR imaging (A. N. Garroway, P. K. Grannell, and P. Mansfield. J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 1974, 7, L457-L462). A major step in making the technique useful for clinical imaging came with Mansfield's publication of the method known as echo planar imaging (P. Mansfield, J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 1977, 10 (3), L55-L58). Lauterbur's and Mansfield's work captured the essence of scientific discovery, collaboration, and concerted effort to overcome significant technical issues, and were key to the development of the technique of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Examples of how MRI technology can be extended to chemical research are given, and limitations of the technique in this regard are discussed. Discussion of how to use commonly available NMR spectrometers for chemical imaging is also provided.

Katherine Mansfield in Slovene translations

During her short life Katherine Mansfield wrote numerous short stories, which place her among the best authors of this genre in world literature. The au thor of this paper tries to establish the reception of Mansfield's work and the critics' response in Slovenia. First translations of her stories were published in various Slovene magazines and reviews after the Second World War. However, the most complete and artistically successful presentation of her work was prepared in 1963 when Jože Udovič published twenty-eight short stories written by this author under the title Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party. Udovič also contributed the introduction about the author and her work. The book was very well received in Slovenia not only by the reading public, but also by critics, who praised Mansfield and Udovič's translation as well. After that more than twenty years passed, before Katarina Mahnič translated Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Singing Lesson" in 1988. We can conclude that hopefully some new translations of Katherine Mansfield's stories will appear soon.