Katherine Anne Porters Ship Of Fools
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Author |
: Katherine Anne Porter |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 453 |
Release |
: 2015-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504003537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504003535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ship of Fools by : Katherine Anne Porter
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 |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0848811291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780848811297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ship of Fools by : Katherine Anne Porter
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 |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076006273952 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ship of Fools by : Katherine Anne Porter
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 |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2015-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574415933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 157441593X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools by : Thomas Austenfeld
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 |
: Clinton Machann |
Publisher |
: Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0890964416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780890964415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katherine Anne Porter and Texas by : Clinton Machann
"A Texas bibliography of Katherine Anne Porter" : p. [124]-182.
Author |
: Katherine Anne Porter |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1072144850 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis SHIP OF FOOLS. VON KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. by : Katherine Anne Porter
Author |
: Katherine Anne Porter |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 1993-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0292765444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292765443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter by : Katherine Anne Porter
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 |
: Janis P. Stout |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813915686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813915685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Katherine Anne Porter by : Janis P. Stout
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 |
: Sebastian Brant |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2012-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486143125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486143120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ship of Fools by : Sebastian Brant
Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations.
Author |
: Darlene Harbour Unrue |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2008-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820333540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820333549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction by : Darlene Harbour Unrue
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.