BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news40@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180412T164644 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180419T101500 SUMMARY:Katherine Mansfield\, Modernist Pioneer DESCRIPTION:The early modernist Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was hailed by writer Elizabeth Bowen as having transformed ‘for good and all our id ea of what goes to make a story’. ‘We owe to her the prosperity of the “free” story’ Bowen asserted\, ‘she untrammelled it from conventi ons and\, still more\, gained for it a prestige till then unthought of. Ho w much ground Katherine Mansfield broke for her successors may not be real ized’. \\r\\nMansfield published five collections of stories during her brief lifetime. Others were published posthumously and her work has remain ed constantly in print and much enjoyed by readers in the near-century sin ce her death. And Mansfield\, who for Bowen\, in the 1950s\, was a ‘miss ing contemporary’\, has continued to inspire the work of later writers i n numerous languages. Current writers in English who claim her as a major influence include Margaret Drabble\, Jaqueline Wilson and Ali Smith.\\r\\n This talk will discuss a selection of stories that demonstrate the formal innovations that characterise Mansfield’s prose and its powerful\, if fr equently indirect\, engagement with human experience. The stories are sele cted from across her career and are related to the places in which Mansfie ld lived: New Zealand\, Britain\, Germany\, France\, and finally\, Switzer land. \\r\\nSelected List of Katherine Mansfield Stories\\r\\n‘Frau Brec henmacher Attends a Wedding’ (1910)‘The Woman at the Store’ (1912) ‘An Indiscreet Journey’ (1915)‘Prelude’ (1918)‘Pictures’ (1919 )‘The Wind Blows’ (1915/1920)‘At the Bay’ (1921)‘The Garden Part y’ (1921)\\r\\nFree digital versions of Mansfield’s stories can be fou nd via the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org [http://www.nz etc.org/tm/scholarly/name-208662.html]   \\r\\nAlso at https://ebooks.ad elaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/ [https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/man sfield/katherine/] X-ALT-DESC:
The early modernist Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was ha iled by writer Elizabeth Bowen as having transformed ‘for good and all o ur idea of what goes to make a story’. ‘We owe to her the prosperity o f the “free” story’ Bowen asserted\, ‘she untrammelled it from con ventions and\, still more\, gained for it a prestige till then unthought o f. How much ground Katherine Mansfield broke for her successors may not be realized’. \nMansfield published five collections of stories during her brief lifetime. Others were published posthumously and her work has remai ned constantly in print and much enjoyed by readers in the near-century si nce her death. And Mansfield\, who for Bowen\, in the 1950s\, was a ‘mis sing contemporary’\, has continued to inspire the work of later writers in numerous languages. Current writers in English who claim her as a major influence include Margaret Drabble\, Jaqueline Wilson and Ali Smith.\nThi s talk will discuss a selection of stories that demonstrate the formal inn ovations that characterise Mansfield’s prose and its powerful\, if frequ ently indirect\, engagement with human experience. The stories are selecte d from across her career and are related to the places in which Mansfield lived: New Zealand\, Britain\, Germany\, France\, and finally\, Switzerlan d. \nSelected List of Katherine Mansfield Stories\n\nFree digital versions of Mansfield’s stories can b e found via the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org \; \; \nAl so at http s://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/ DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180419T120000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR