Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools : new interpretations and transatlantic contexts / edited 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...
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Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Denton, Texas : The University of North Texas Press, 2015. |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- New contexts for Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools / Thomas Austenfeld
- Fools and folly in Erasmus and Porter / Jewel Spears Brooker
- "After all, what is this life itself?": humanist contexts of death and immortality in Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools / Dimiter Daphinoff
- Paratexts and the rhetorical factor in literature: Sebastian Brant and Katherine Anne Porter / Joachim Knape
- "Before the voyage ended": an examination of the serial publication of Ship of fools, 1944-1959 / Beth Alvarez
- "Mad with virtue and piety": Faulkner's Ike McCaslin and Porter's Dr. Schumann / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
- Ship of fools the film: in context / Christine Hait
- Transnationalizing Porter's Germans in Stanley Kramer's Ship of fools (1965): West and East German responses / Anne-Marie Scholz
- Ship of fools: a severe blow to faith / Alexandra Subramanian
- The Weimar moment in Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools / Joseph Kuhn
- Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools: failed novel, classic satire, or private joke? / Darlene Harbour Unrue
- Notes on contributors.