From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter
Betsy Colquitt Editat de Mark Busby, Dick Heaberlinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2001
In 1939 she expected to receive the Texas Institute of Letters Award for "Best Texas Book" only to be insulted when the award went to folklorist J. Frank Dobie. In the 1950s she accepted an invitation to lecture at the University of Texas at Austin. During her visit to present that lecture, Porter began to believe that UT would build a library and name it after her, Texas' most famous literary daughter. But somehow she and UT President Harry Ransom miscommunicated, and Porter left her materials to the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland. Finally, in 1976 she returned to Texas to receive recognition from Howard Payne University in Brownwood. On that trip she visited her mother's grave in the little cemetery at Indian Creek and decided that her remains on her death belonged beside her mother. So Porter finally returned to the state she had fled early in her life.
The essays in this collection are based primarily upon a symposium held in May 1998 at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. The collection includes essays by both scholars of Porter's work and of Texas literature. Some concern specific aspects of her life, such as her love for her birthday or her marital record. Others focus on the main elements of her relationship with Texas, while still others deal with specific works, often relating them to her Texas heritage. This important addition to Porter studies provides new insight into the ways in which Porter's Texas heritage shaped her life and her fiction.
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ISBN-13: 9780875652375
ISBN-10: 0875652379
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Texas Christian University Press
ISBN-10: 0875652379
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Texas Christian University Press