Her father’s daughter? Katherine Mansfield’s Lists
“Her father’s daughter?: Katherine Mansfield’s Lists” focuses on the pragmatic side to the elusive writer by way of the variety of lists found throughout her notebooks. The obsessive listing and accounting link her to the colonial society of her upbringing, and especially to her father. Here we disc...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | “Her father’s daughter?: Katherine Mansfield’s Lists” focuses on the pragmatic side to the elusive writer by way of the variety of lists found throughout her notebooks. The obsessive listing and accounting link her to the colonial society of her upbringing, and especially to her father. Here we discover a different Mansfield from the familiar figure who dispersed herself continually in different roles: a deliberate young writer ticking off the lists of skills she will need to acquire, roles to master, images and phrases to store up for later use, and a highly organised young colonial echoing her banker father’s concern to record everything, however ordinary or minute. |
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