Katherine Anne Porter Remembered

Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817316679

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Katherine Anne Porter Remembered by Darlene Harbour Unrue Pdf

This is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing portrait of the elusive and complex American writer. From a fractured and vagabond girlhood in Texas, Porter led a wildly itinerant life that took her through five marriages, innumerable love affairs, and homes in Colorado, New York, Paris, Mexico, Louisiana, California, and Maryland. With very little formal education, she grew to become a major writer of short stories and the author of several books including Flowering Judas and other stories; Ship of Fools; Pale Horse; Pale Ride; Noon Wine; and The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The 63 reminiscences in this book are testaments to Porter's extraordinary beauty, her gift for mesmerizing and charming audiences and friends, her yearnings for a lasting home, her delusions about love, the astonishing range and scope of her reading, her sharp tongue and vindictiveness, and her final paranoid renunciations of friends and family. Along the way, Porter formed friendships with Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick, Flannery O’Connor, and Cleanth Brooks whose remembrances of her are included.

Author : Joan Givner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820313405

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Katherine Anne Porter by Joan Givner Pdf

A biography of one of American literature's most enigmatic figures portrays the award-winning writer through all the drama, passion, excitement, and carefully constructed fiction of her ninety-year life

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044942196

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The Days Before by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

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Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878052674

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Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871134535

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Letters of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Selected letters between Porter and fellow writers trace her development as a writer and reveal her outlook on life.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570030847

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Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry makes available for the first time the complete poetic canon of one of America's most-celebrated writers. Widely known and revered for her award-winning short stories, Porter published just thirty-two poems and poetry translations during her lifetime, although she composed - and subsequently destroyed - hundreds. Her poetry is virtually unknown even by her most devoted followers. From fragmentary notes and letters found among Porter's papers, Darlene Harbour Unrue has recovered and edited eighteen unpublished poems. In a significant addition to the Porter canon, these newly found poems join Porter's published verse - including the entire text of the now-rare Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book - to create a unique commentary on the writer's life and work. Interspersed with photographs of Porter from the years and places in which she composed the poems, the volume features a substantial critical and biographical essay in which Unrue explains the significance of individual poems and details the relationship between Porter's poetry and fiction. Unrue describes Porter's verse as an index to the stages of her developing intellectual thought and, in some cases, an intermediate phase in a creative process that began with random notes and letters and culminated in fiction.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617036200

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Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home attendant in Maryland. Different from any previous selection, this body of letters does not omit Porter's frank criticism of fellow writers and spans her entire life. Within that circumscription is the chronicle of Porter, a twentieth-century woman searching for love while she struggles to become the writer she is sure she can be. Porter's letters vividly showcase the twentieth century as the writer observes it from her historical vantage points--tuberculosis sanatoria and the influenza pandemic of 1918; the leftist community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s; the Mexican cultural revolution of the 1920s and early 1930s; the expatriate community in Paris in the 1930s; the rise of Nazism in Europe between the World Wars; the Second World War and its concomitant suppression of civil liberties; Hollywood and the university circuit as a haven for financially strapped writers in the 1940s and 1950s; the Cold War and its competition for supremacy in space; the Women's Rights and the Civil Rights movements; and the evolution and demise of literary modernism.

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781574415933

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Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools by Thomas Austenfeld Pdf

Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges in her Preface to Ship of Fools, Porter's image of Europe emerges as more complex, more knowledgeable, and more politically nuanced than previous critics of her novel have acknowledged. Ship of Fools is in conversation with Europe's humanistic tradition as well as with the political moments of 1931 and 1962; i.e., the years that elapsed from the novel's conception to its completion. The novel and the 1965 film based upon it intervene into the history of film, the assessment of Weimar Germany, and Porter's clear-eyed judgment of her own times through the lens of her art.

Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578067774

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Katherine Anne Porter by Darlene Harbour Unrue Pdf

This biography captures the incomparable life and times of one of America's finest writers, a Pulitzer-winning author of 27 stories and short novels and one long novel, all acclaimed for their crystalline prose and incisive probing of the human condition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1646931173

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Katherine Anne Porter by Anonim Pdf

Four short stories of this Pulitzer Prize winner are examined, including Porter's "Flowering Judas," "Old Mortality," "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," and "The Grave."

Author : Thomas F. Walsh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813915686

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Katherine Anne Porter by Janis P. Stout Pdf

Katherine Anne Porter's life closely paralleled that of her century not only in its span (1890-1980) but in its interests and contradictions. A communist sympathizer who became a quasi fascist; a cosmopolitan who embraced southern agrarianism, a femme fatale whose writings nonetheless evince feminist feeling, Porter embodied, often at their extremes, the major currents of her time and ours. In this new biography Janis P. Stout argues that these inconsistencies can be viewed as part and parcel of modernism itself. Drawing on Porter's rich and voluminous correspondence as well as published works, Stout here sets out to craft an intellectual biography of a woman who, by her own admission, was "not really an intellectual". Stout reveals the extent of Porter's involvement in events of public significance and her interactions with prominent figures, from President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico in 1920 to Hermann Goering in Berlin in 1931, to Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Allen Tate, and others in the 1930s and 1940s, to members of the Lyndon Johnson White House in the 1960s. Against the backdrop of world war and cold war, Porter's conflicting views on politics, race, religion, and feminism reflected Porter's ambivalence toward her own Texas roots.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 0605652147

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Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496229229

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What Isn't Remembered by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry Pdf

Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in What Isn't Remembered explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home. The characters yearn not only to redefine themselves and rebuild their relationships but also to recover lost loves--a parent, a child, a friend, a spouse, a partner. A young man longs for his mother's love while grieving the loss of his older brother. A mother's affair sabotages her relationship with her daughter, causing a lifelong feud between the two. A divorced man struggles to come to terms with his failed marriage and his family's genocidal past while trying to persuade his father to start cancer treatments. A high school girl feels responsible for the death of her best friend, and the guilt continues to haunt her decades later. Evocative and lyrical, the tales in What Isn't Remembered uncover complex events and emotions, as well as the unpredictable ways in which people adapt to what happens in their lives, finding solace from the most surprising and unexpected sources.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 0156685191

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The Old Order by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf