A01=Claire Drewery
Author_Claire Drewery
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Dead Knew
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Human Suffering
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Kew Gardens
Late Colonel
liminal
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Mansfield's Story
Mansfield’s Story
Modernist Epiphany
Modernist Short
Modernist Short Fiction
Modernist Short Story
Modernist Women Writers
Mrs Brown
Queen's Gate
Queen’s Gate
Revelatory Moment
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Richardson's Stories
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Richardson’s Stories
Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
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Short Story Form
Sinclair's Story
Sinclair’s Story
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Uncanny Stories
War Dead
White Spaces
Woolf's Stories
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Woolf’s Stories
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754666462
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story as a genre is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus offers an ideal platform from which to examine the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Embodying both liberation and restriction, liminal spaces on the one hand enable challenges to traditional cultural and personal identities, while on the other hand they entail the inevitable negative consequences of occupying the position of the outsider: marginality, psychosis, and death. Mansfield, Richardson, Sinclair, and Woolf all exploit this paradox in their short fiction, which typically explores literal and psychological borderline states that are resistant to rational analysis. Thus, their short stories offered these authors an opportunity to represent the borders of unconsciousness and to articulate meaning while also conveying a sense of that which is unsayable. Through their concern with liminality, Drewery shows, these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.
Claire Drewery is a Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
