Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of fools : new interpretations and transatlantic contexts /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Austenfeld, Thomas, 1960- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Criticism and interpretation. Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980. > Ship of fools. Ship of fools (Motion picture) > History and criticism.

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.