Description:
Celebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.
Brief description: Enda Duffy is the Arnhold Presidential Dept. Chair of English at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook won the Modernist Studies Association Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. He is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism (European Joyce Studies 21, 2011), and editor of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, and of many articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He has just completed a new ms. on emigration and Irish writing. His other current project concerns modernism, energy, and global resources.