Flowering Judas

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429971932

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Flowering Judas by Jane Haddam Pdf

"Haddam manages to produce each time a layered, richly peopled, and dryly witty book with a plot of mind-bending complexity." —Houston Chronicle on Glass Houses Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive—paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been damaging to her family, her children and to herself. Now, Chester's body is finally found—hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent—meaning that Chester had been alive, somewhere, until very recently. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to Gregor Demarkian—a former FBI agent and a frequent consultant on such cases—to try and unravel the truth buried within this very complex and tragic case and find out once and for all what really happened all those years ago.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598533309

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Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410346124

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A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Jaime Marroquin Arredondo,Adela Pineda Franco,Magdalena Mieri
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935623229

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Open Borders to a Revolution by Jaime Marroquin Arredondo,Adela Pineda Franco,Magdalena Mieri Pdf

Open Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. It marks both the bicentennial of Latin America’s independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, an anniversary with significant relevance for American history. The Smithsonian partnered with several institutions and organized a series of cultural events, among them an academic symposium whose program was envisioned and developed by the editors of this volume: “Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in the United States.” The symposium gathered scholars who engaged in conversation and debate on several aspects of U.S.-Mexico relations, including the Mexican-American experience. This volume consolidates the results of those intellectual exchanges, adding new voices, and providing a wide-ranging exploration of the Mexican Revolution.

Author : Harry John Mooney
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1957-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822973980

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The Fiction and Criticism of Katherine Anne Porter by Harry John Mooney Pdf

One of the earliest, and still one of the most perceptive analyses of Katherine Anne Porter, it gives careful interpretation of the style and intent of Porter’s work from 1935 through the publication and critical reception of Ship of Fools.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451504852

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Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 0156685191

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The Old Order by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333540

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Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction by Darlene Harbour Unrue Pdf

My stories are fragments of a larger plan, Katherine Anne Porter once wrote. And on another occasion she praised a critic who perceived that all her work, from the very beginning, was part of an "unbroken progression, all related." In Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction, Darlene Unrue examines the encompassing themes that underlie Porter's shorter fiction and that combined to create the haunting events of her complex metaphorical novel, Ship of Fools. Porter believed that men and women are compelled toward discovering the truth about their existence, but that the nature of our world makes those truths difficult to discern. In her writing, Unrue finds, Porter explored not only this basic human need to confront the truth, but also the bewilderment and suffering that are so often the results of failing to fulfill that need. Often in Porter's fiction the movement toward truth is obstructed by the hollow beliefs and illusions that abound in the world--by the seductions of ideology and dogmatic religion, by romantic love or the vision of a golden past. Clinging to such illusions, using them to lend a false coherence to their lives, Porter's characters are led away from the hard realization that truth requires accepting the existence of the unknowable at the center of life, and that what is knowable lies within themselves. Drawing on essays, reviews, letters, and notes, as well as on the intricate fabric of the fiction, this study traces Porter's pursuit of the truth through the creation of a body of fiction in which, from fragments of life, she could assemble an honest vision of the world.

Author : Ellen Burton Harrington
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433100770

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Scribbling Women & the Short Story Form by Ellen Burton Harrington Pdf

«America is now wholly given over to a d - d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash...» Taking Hawthorne's famous 1855 complaint about women writers as a starting point for consideration, Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form is a collection of fourteen critical essays about the short fiction of British and American women writers. This anthology takes a feminist approach, examining the liberating possibilities for women writers of the form of the short story, a genre often associated with alienation or subversion (the writer Frank O'Connor describes the form as marginal or «outlaw»). Covering the work of selected women writers from the 1850s through the late twentieth century, this collection includes essays on well-known authors such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, alongside essays on Harriett Prescott Spofford, Ruth Stewart, L. T. Meade, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Zitkala-Sa, Sui Sin Far, and Lydia Davis, less-known authors whose stories offer rich ground for consideration.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504003537

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Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle). August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship’s first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple and their fat, seasick bulldog; and a boisterous band of Cuban medical students. As the Vera journeys across the Atlantic, the incidents and intrigues of several dozen passengers and crew members come into razor-sharp focus. The result is a richly drawn portrait of the human condition in all its complexity and a mesmerizing snapshot of a world drifting toward disaster. Written over a span of twenty years and based on the diary Katherine Anne Porter kept during a similar ocean voyage, Ship of Fools was the bestselling novel of 1962 and the inspiration for an Academy Award–winning film starring Vivien Leigh. It is a masterpiece of American literature as captivating today as when it was first published more than a half century ago. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Katherine Anne Porter, including rare photos from the University of Maryland Libraries.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813519780

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Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

This casebook on "Flowering Judas" addresses Porter's ambivalence surrounding her roles as woman and artist and also attests to the profound influence of Mexico upon her work.

Author : Elaine Showalter,Lea Baechler,A. Walton Litz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780020820253

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Modern American Women Writers by Elaine Showalter,Lea Baechler,A. Walton Litz Pdf

Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women's studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712322904

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Introduction to Literature Revised Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Walsh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477305249

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Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico by Thomas F. Walsh Pdf

In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life—even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas. Most important, Walsh discerns how the great swings between depression and elation that characterized Porter's emotional life influenced her alternating visions of Mexico. In such works as "Xochimilco," Porter saw Mexico as an earthly Eden where hopes for a better society could be realized, but in other stories, including "The Fiesta of Guadalupe," she depicts Mexico as a place of hopeless oppression for the native peoples. Mexico, Porter once said, gave her back her Texas past. Given the unhappiness of that past, her feelings toward Mexico would always be ambivalent, but her Mexican experiences influenced all her subsequent works to some degree, even those pieces not specifically Mexican in setting. Walsh's study, then, is an essential key for anyone seeking greater understanding of the life or works of Katherine Anne Porter.

Author : Ishteyaque Shams
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 8126903937

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New Perspectives on American Literature by Ishteyaque Shams Pdf

The Book, New Perspectives On American Literature Presents A Scholarly Study Of American Literature Right From The Beginning To The Present Time. It Includes Discussions On American Women S Drama, American Fiction And Recent American Poetry By Eminent Scholars Of Russia, Spain And Finland. Besides These, There Are Highly Scholarly Studies Of Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, John A. Williams, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Strand And Richard Wright By The Eminent Scholars From The North To The South Of India. The Book Would Be Useful For Both The Teachers And The Students Of American Literature.