da Sousa Correa, Delia
(2011).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.3366/kms.2011.0004 |
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 2041-4501 |
| Keywords: | Katherine Mansfield, performance; music; performative; affect; Mendelssohn |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Research Group: | Literature and Music Research Group |
| Item ID: | 30601 |
| Depositing User: | Delia da Sousa Correa |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2012 17:36 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2019 08:38 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30601 |
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