The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter

The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: James T. F. Tanner
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780929398228

In this study of Porter’s work, Tanner focuses on Porter’s denial of her Texas heritage, her apparent urge to distance herself from Texas and all things Texan. He analyzes Porter’s settings and characters, emphasizing and clarifying the influence of her Texas upbringing on her creative art, exploring the conflict between the Texas Porter and the urbane-sophisticate Porter. Born in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter was always a Texas writer, even though she roamed widely, and seemed to represent, for many readers, a more Southern and genteel facet of Texas culture than they were prepared to accept. Tanner deals with Porter as a Texas story-teller, who, her wanderings over the earth notwithstanding, was a Texas writer first and last.

Katherine Anne Porter and Texas

Katherine Anne Porter and Texas
Author: Clinton Machann
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780890964415

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

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Janis P. Stout
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780813915685

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.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1979
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156188760

Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504003535

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.

The Old Order

The Old Order
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1969
Genre: Short stories, American
ISBN: 9780156685191

The Leaning Tower and Other Stories

The Leaning Tower and Other Stories
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1598533363

The classic 1944 collection of ten short stories by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author and journalist Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the ten gems in this collection 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.” The collection includes The Old Order, a sequence of short stories that paints a devastating portrait of the racial inequities that plague life in the American South, as well as other selected stories such as “The Leaning Tower” and “The Downward Path to Wisdom”.

Venus in the Afternoon

Venus in the Afternoon
Author: Tehila Lieberman
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1574414666

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2012. The short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice Munro's description of the short story as "a world seen in a quick, glancing light." In chiseled and elegant prose, Lieberman conjures wildly disparate worlds. A middle aged window washer, mourning his wife and an estranged daughter, begins to grow attached to a young woman he sees through the glass; a writer, against his better judgment, pursues a new relationship with a femme fatale who years ago broke his heart; and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor struggles with the delicate decision of whether to finally ask her aging mother how it was that she survived. It is all here--the exigencies of love, of lust, the raw, unlit terrain of grief. Whether plumbing the darker depths or casting a humorous eye on a doomed relationship, these stories never force a choice between tragedy and redemption, but rather invite us into the private moments and crucibles of lives as hungry and flawed as our own.

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Joan Givner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820313408

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

Some People Let You Down

Some People Let You Down
Author: Mike Alberti
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 157441822X

The nine stories in Mike Alberti’s debut collection shine a sharp light on small-town American life —not the Arcadian small towns of yesteryear, but the old mill towns hanging on after the mill has stopped running, the deserted agricultural communities in the middle of vast industrial farms, places where bad luck has become part of the weather. But even in these blighted, neglected landscapes, the possibility of renewal always presents itself: there is hope for these places and the characters who inhabit them. In these fresh, innovative stories, some people let you down, but some people don’t.