The Ambivalent Art Of Katherine Anne Porter
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The Ambivalent Art Of Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Mary Titus
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Ambivalent Art Of Katherine Anne Porter written by Mary Titus and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American women. Mary Titus draws upon unpublished Porter papers, as well as newly available editions of her early fiction, poetry, and reviews, to trace Porter’s shifting and complex response to those cultural changes. Titus shows how Porter explored her own ambivalence about gender and creativity, for she experienced firsthand a remarkable range of ideas concerning female sexuality. These included the Victorian attitudes of the grandmother who raised her; the sexual license of revolutionary Mexico, 1920s New York, and 1930s Paris; and the conservative, ordered attitudes of the Agrarians. Throughout Porter’s long career, writes Titus, she “repeatedly probed cultural arguments about female creativity, a woman’s maternal legacy, romantic love, and sexual identity, always with startling acuity, and often with painful ambivalence.” Much of her writing, then, serves as a medium for what Titus terms Porter’s “gender-thinking”--her sustained examination of the interrelated issues of art, gender, and identity. Porter, says Titus, rebelled against her upbringing yet never relinquished the belief that her work as an artist was somehow unnatural, a turn away from the essential identity of woman as “the repository of life,” as childbearer. In her life Porter increasingly played a highly feminized public role as southern lady, but in her writing she continued to engage changing representations of female identity and sexuality. This is an important new study of the tensions and ambivalence inscribed in Porter’s fiction, as well as the vocational anxiety and gender performance of her actual life.
Katherine Anne Porter The Art Of Rejection
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Author : William L. Nance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Katherine Anne Porter The Art Of Rejection written by William L. Nance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Rejection
Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
language : en
Publisher:
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Katherine Anne Porter The Art Of Rejection
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Author : William L. Nance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Katherine Anne Porter The Art Of Rejection written by William L. Nance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Rejection
Selected Letters Of Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-11-28
Selected Letters Of Katherine Anne Porter written by Darlene Harbour Unrue and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-28 with Literary Collections categories.
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 who 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.
Uncollected Early Prose Of Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Katherine Anne Porter
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Uncollected Early Prose Of Katherine Anne Porter written by Katherine Anne Porter and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Truth And Vision In Katherine Anne Porter S Fiction
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Author : Darlene Harbour Unrue
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008-12-01
Truth And Vision In Katherine Anne Porter S Fiction written by Darlene Harbour Unrue and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Katherine Anne Porter S Ship Of Fools
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Author : Thomas Austenfeld
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-04-15
Katherine Anne Porter S Ship Of Fools written by Thomas Austenfeld and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Author : Katherine Anne Porter
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1987
Katherine Anne Porter written by Katherine Anne Porter and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Katherine Anne Porter And The Art Of Rejection
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Author : William L. Nance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Katherine Anne Porter And The Art Of Rejection written by William L. Nance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Study largely devoted to the explication of the rejection theme in the works of the American writer.