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SUMMARY:'Creating the "English Chekhov": Middleton Murry\, Anton Chekhov\,
  and the buried life of Katherine Mansfield' - Rachel Polonsky\, Murray Ed
 wards College
DTSTART:20111124T170000Z
DTEND:20111124T190000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA
DESCRIPTION:The talk begins at 5pm in the Meeting Room\, Clare Hall main b
 uilding\, and will conclude with a glass of wine/juice at 6.45 pm.\nThe ev
 ent is open to all and no booking is required.\n\n*Précis:* 'Anton Chekho
 v became an increasingly important figure for Katherine Mansfield in the l
 ast five years of her life. In a 'dialogue' with Chekhov that runs through
  her letters and notebooks\, Mansfield contemplated the writer’s vocatio
 n\, literary form\, illness\, life\, death\, and time. When John Middleton
  Murry edited her letters for publication after her death (turning Mansfie
 ld into an ‘English Tchekhov’\, as S. S. Koteliansky commented in disg
 ust)\, he left barely a trace of her reading of Chekhov\, and almost entir
 ely erased from the record the year of strenuous work she did on Kotelians
 ky’s literal translations of Chekhov’s Letters for publication in the 
 Athenaeum. In this paper\, I will explore Mansfield’s engagement with Ch
 ekhov (paying particular attention to the letter as a literary genre) and 
 her muted though intense contest with Murry over the question of Chekhov
 ’s English reception.'\n\n*Dr Rachel Polonsky* teaches in the Department
  of Slavonic Studies. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth and twent
 ieth-century poetry\, fiction\, and memoir\, often with a comparative emph
 asis\, and the place of Russian literature in the overlapping contexts of 
 cultural\, intellectual\, and political history. \nShe has published numer
 ous essays\, articles\, and reviews on a wide variety of subjects in schol
 arly journals and anthologies\, and is a frequent contributor to the _Time
 s Literary Supplement_ among other periodicals. Her books include _Molotov
 ’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History_ (Faber and Faber\, 2010)
  and _English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance_ (Cambridge
  University Press\, 1998).\n\nThe talk is part of the programme of the Rea
 ding & Reception Studies Seminar. Further details of the Seminar can be fo
 und at:\nhttp://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=333\n\nDetails of how
  to find the venue can be found at:\nhttp://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.
 php?id=34\n\nImage: B. Bennet Alder\, 'Katherine Mansfield in 1913' (1930)
  watercolour over photograph 
LOCATION:Meeting Room\, Clare Hall (main building)\, Herschel Road\, Cambr
 idge CB3
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