
Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools
New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts
Thomas Austenfeld(Editor)
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Published on 31. March 2015
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-57441-593-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 have acknowledged. Ship of Fools is in conversation with Europe's humanistic tradition as well as with the political moments of 1931 and 1962, the years that elapsed from the novel's conception to its completion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Denton
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
17 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57441-593-3 (9781574415933)
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Person
Thomas Austenfeld was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of Muenster, Germany and Virginia, USA. He is currently Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Austenfeld is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis, the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century, and the co-editor of Writing American Women and Terrorism and Narrative Practice.