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Item Details
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TRUTH AND VISION IN KATHERINE ANNE PORTER'S FICTION
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| By: |
Darlene Harbour Unrue |
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Paperback |
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£28.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820333549 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820333540 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2008 |
| Description: |
Darlene Unrue examines the themes that underlie Porter's shorter fiction and that combined to create the haunting events of her complex metaphorical novel, "Ship of Fools." Drawing on essays, reviews, letters, and notes, this study traces Porter's pursuit of the truth through the creation of a body of fiction. |
| Synopsis: |
My stories are fragments of a larger plan, Katherine Anne Porter once wrote. And on another occasion she praised a critic who perceived that all her work, from the very beginning, was part of an "unbroken progression, all related."In "Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction," Darlene Unrue examines the encompassing themes that underlie Porter's shorter fiction and that combined to create the haunting events of her complex metaphorical novel, "Ship of Fools." Porter believed that men and women are compelled toward discovering the truth about their existence, but that the nature of our world makes those truths difficult to discern. In her writing, Unrue finds, Porter explored not only this basic human need to confront the truth, but also the bewilderment and suffering that are so often the results of failing to fulfill that need.Often in Porter's fiction the movement toward truth is obstructed by the hollow beliefs and illusions that abound in the world--by the seductions of ideology and dogmatic religion, by romantic love or the vision of a golden past. Clinging to such illusions, using them to lend a false coherence to their lives, Porter's characters are led away from the hard realization that truth requires accepting the existence of the unknowable at the center of life, and that what is knowable lies within themselves.Drawing on essays, reviews, letters, and notes, as well as on the intricate fabric of the fiction, this study traces Porter's pursuit of the truth through the creation of a body of fiction in which, from fragments of life, she could assemble an honest vision of the world. |
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Illustrations, black and white |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
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Returnable |
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