Katherine Anne Porter S Ship Of Fools

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychological fiction
ISBN : 0848811291

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Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. The passenger list is long and portentous, and includes a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests, and a host of others. This "ship of fools" is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39076006273952

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Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

A novel recounting the lives and actions of the passengers on a ship en route from Mexico to Germany in 1931.

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ship Fools by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Clinton Machann,William Bedford Clark
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0890964416

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Katherine Anne Porter and Texas by Clinton Machann,William Bedford Clark Pdf

"A Texas bibliography of Katherine Anne Porter" : p. [124]-182.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter,Ruth M. Alvarez,Thomas Francis Walsh
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292765444

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Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter,Ruth M. Alvarez,Thomas Francis Walsh Pdf

This volume brings together 29 pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appear in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Includes both fiction and essays.

Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Sebastian Brant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486143125

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The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant Pdf

Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations.

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 0156685191

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The Old Order by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Janis P. Stout
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817317829

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South by Southwest by Janis P. Stout Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author. Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have portrayed her as a strikingly glamorous woman whose photographs appeared in society magazines. They have emphasized, of course, her writing— particularly the novel Ship of Fools, which was made into an award-winning film, and her collection Pale Horse, Pale Rider, which cemented her role as a significant and original literary modernist. They have highlighted her dramatic, sad, and fragmented personal life. Few, however, have addressed her uneasy relationship to her childhood in rural Texas. Janis P. Stout argues that throughout Porter’s life she remained preoccupied with the twin conundrums of how she felt about being a woman and how she felt about her Texas origins. Her construction of herself as a beautiful but unhappy southerner sprung from a plantation aristocracy of reduced fortunes meant she construed Texas as the Old South. The Texas Porter knew and re-created in her fiction had been settled by southerners like her grandparents, who brought slaves with them. As she wrote of this Texas, she also enhanced and mythologized it, exaggerating its beauty, fertility, and gracious ways as much as the disaffection that drove her to leave. Her feelings toward Texas ran to both extremes, and she was never able to reconcile them. Stout examines the author and her works within the historical and cultural context from which she emerged. In particular, Stout emphasizes four main themes in the history of Texas that she believes are of the greatest importance in understanding Porter: its geography and border location (expressed in Porter’s lifelong fascination with marginality, indeterminacy, and escape); its violence (the brutality of her first marriage as well as the lawlessness that pervaded her hometown); its racism (lynchings were prevalent throughout her upbringing); and its marginalization of women (Stout draws a connection between Porter’s references to the burning sun and oppressive heat of Texas and her life with her first husband).

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598533361

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The Leaning Tower and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the nine gems in this 1944 collection, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.”

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher : New York : Modern Library
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Publishers' advertisements
ISBN : UOM:39076006273895

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Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter Pdf

Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1375398946

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A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools by Cengage Learning Gale Pdf

A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Ship of Fools," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels 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 Novels for Students for all of your research needs.