Kimber, G. and Davison, C. (2016) Introduction. In: Kimber, G. and Davison, C. (eds.) The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield, including Miscellaneous Works. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-8.
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| Abstract: | Katherine Mansfield's diary entries offer us nothing less than the poetry of everyday life – the poetics of materiality interacting with intertextuality, encompassing art, music, contemporary history, personal finances, observation, memory, testimony, imagination and emotion. KM’s diaries are not composed of one single voice, but rather are to be read like an orchestral score – interweaving themes, threads, patterns, parts and styles. What do emerge are the byways of an author’s creative imagination, encompassed in the quirkiness of style or the meandering patterns of thought. When read alongside her polished published stories, and illuminated by biography, the personal writing reads as a testimony to Mansfield’s other life – when her aspirations to authorship, creative and economic autonomy, imaginative and stylistic originality, her keen ear for the material world around her, all attest to the brilliance of a pioneering proto-modernist and modernist voice, often well in advance of the heavyweights and highbrows with whom she has tended to be compared. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature |
| Creators: | Kimber, Gerri and Davison, Claire |
| Editors: | Kimber, Gerri and Davison, Claire |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 10 March 2016 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Page Range: | pp. 1-8 |
| Title of Book: | The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield, including Miscellaneous Works |
| Series Name: | The Edinburgh edition of the collected works of Katherine Mansfield |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Place of Publication: | Edinburgh |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780748685059 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/8457 |
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