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

Table of Contents

List of Images

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: 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

Index