Title Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools : new interpretations and transatlantic contexts / edited by Thomas Austenfeld

Edition First edition Published Denton, Texas : The University of North Texas Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary 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 mom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Ship of fools. Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 fast Ship of fools (Motion picture) -- History and criticism Ship of fools (Motion picture) fast Ship of fools (Porter, Katherine Anne) fast Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Austenfeld, Thomas, 1960- editor ISBN 9781574416060 1574416065

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