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KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: A SENSE OF THE TIMES.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: A SENSE OF THE TIMES. Hardcover first edition - 1995

by [Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980] Stout, Janis P

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Charlottesville, VA:: University Press of Virginia,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which examines both Porter's life and at her work and which emphasizes the historical context of her writing. "A consummate stylist noted for the outstanding craftsmanship with which she shaped short stories, Porter worked so slowly that it took her 25 years to complete a major novel (Ship of Fools). Stout, drawing on the Texas-raised Porter's letters, describes the author as a difficult and conflicted woman. She was a Communist during the 1920s but later embraced conservative attitudes. Without excusing Porter's virulent racism, Stout attributes most of it to her upbringing, noting also that Porter intensely disliked homosexuals and feminists and was frequently unkind to her four husbands and other lovers. Stout treats Porter not as an intellectual but as a writer devoted to her work, who drew on her past to create artful fiction." (Publisher's Weekly) A title in Minds of the New South series. Illustrated with photographs. Includes extensive notes, bibliography, index. xviii, 517 pp.
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From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/15/1995, Page 70
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/08/1995, Page 282

About the author

Janis P. Stout is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Sodoms in Eden: The City in American Fiction before 1860 and The Journey Narrative in American Literature: Patterns and Departures.

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