Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield's Writing [Hardcover]

Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted.Introduction 1. Mansfield, Silent Film and Post-Impressionism 2. Beyond Impressionist Subjectivity 3. Ideological Stances and Aesthetic Concerns 4. Mansfield's Post-war Reappraisal of Cinema 5. Sensory Deprivation and Inner Probing Conclusion Bibliography Index

Maurizio Ascari is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. His previous publications include A Counter-History of Crime Fiction (2007) and Literature of the Global Age (2011). He has also edited and translated works by Katherine Mansfield, Henry James and William Faulkner.