Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781574415933)

Vendor: Thomas Austenfeld
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Format: Hardcover
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Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts

$39.95

Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts

$39.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Thomas Austenfeld
ISBN-10: 157441593X
ISBN-13: 9781574415933
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d
By Thomas Austenfeld
By Thomas Austenfeld
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THOMAS AUSTENFELD was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of Münster and Virginia. 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.

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