katherine Anne Porter
Katherine anne_porter
Basic information
Born: May 15th, 1890
Birthplace: Indian Creek, Texas
Died: September 18th, 1980 Original Name: Callie Russell Porter
Works and Awards
• • • • • • • • • • Long Stories/Short Novels Old Mortality (1937) Noon Wine (1937) Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) Novel Ship of fools (1962) Essays The Necessary Enemy (1948) The Days Before (1952) The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)
Marriage
• Katherine was first married in 1906 to John Henry Koontz of Inez, Texas and divorced in 1915. • She married and divorced four times. She had passionate love affairs, sometimes with men significantly younger than herself, and she enjoyed the fullness of those experiences, sometimes writing quite comfortably and frankly about her sexuality.
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In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," there are two themes. The first is self-pity. The second theme is the acceptance of her death. selfBoth deal with the way people perceive their deaths and mortality in general. Granny Weatherall's behavior is Porter's tool for making these themes visible to the reader. The theme of self-pity is obvious selfand thoroughly explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall was left at the altar on her wedding day. As a result, the pathetic woman feels sorry for herself for the rest of her life. She becomes a bitter old woman who is suspicious of everyone around her. This point is shown early in the story when the do Granny Weatherall, the main character in Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is an 80-year-old elderly woman who is at the 80-yeardoorstep of death. There is a sense of disillusionment with Granny that leads readers to develop their own interpretation of her relationship with Cornelia, her daughter As the narrator, Granny unknowingly would paint the picture of Cornelia as nuisance and bothersome. In fact, the reader can rationalize that it is just Cornelia's concern for an ailing mother that creates the situation of her seemingly being there all the time.
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Awards and honors
1966 — Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Stories (1965) 1966 — National Book Award for The Collected Stories (1965) 1967 — (American Academy of Arts and Letters) Three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 — Porter was featured on a United States postage stamp issued 15 May 2006. She was the 22nd person featured in the Literary Arts commemorative stamp series.
A Sanatoria B Chicago C New York
Her experiences during treatment provided the background for which short novel?
A Pale Horse, Pale Rider B Maria Concepcion C Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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美国文学英语ppt-Katherine Anne Porter
Faulkner!
(Robert Penn Warren)
(Graham Greene)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert , Henry James
I admired and was influenced by Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Henry James and Virginia Woolf
Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year.
She is regardedas a stylist.
Contents
PART
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Biographical Introduction
PART
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Major works
Short story collections
3.The Old Order: Stories of the South (1955) Includes ten of Porter's previously published short stories, all of which take place in the American South.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
She was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.
She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil.
A Brief Literary Biography of Katherine Anne Porter
A Brief Literary Biography of Katherine Anne Porter四川乐山师范学院外语系贾燕梅[摘要]凯瑟琳-安-波特是美国著名的短篇小说作家,一生的作品为数并不多,但均引起人们的广泛关注和讨论O 本文从波特的童年~青年~中年和老年时期的生活~婚姻~及小说创作为起点,展示由此而形成的独立~聪慧~桀骜不驯~缺乏安全感的复杂的小说作家的人物性格O[关键词]凯瑟琳-安-波特生活婚姻创作人物性格Katherine Anne POrter traverSed nine decadeS Of revOlu-tiOn and War,the Jazz Age and the Great DepreSSiOn,SOmetimeS at full Sail,SOmetimeS flOundering,and Often,Whether by acci-dent Or deSign,WaShing up Where hiStOry WaS taking place.She WaS a beautiful,brilliant,cOmpleX and inSecure WOman WhO cOnStructed her OWn StOry the Way She Wanted it tO be.GeOrge ~endrick,authOrS Of the TWayne United StateS AuthOr SerieS On POrter,acknOWledge JOan Givner S Katherine Anne POrter, A Life,publiShed in1982,aS a valid decOnStructiOn Of the mythS POrter purpOSely created abOut herSelf(~endrick1).Katherine Anne POrter WaS bOrn Callie RuSSell POrter On May15,1890in Indian Creek,TeXaS.~er mOther,Alice POrter, died in1892,apparently Of cOmplicatiOnS frOm childbirth and an undiagnOSed brOnchial cOnditiOn(Givner39).POrter herSelf Suffered frOm familial chrOnic thOracic prOblemS When cOnfrOnt-ed With cOld climateS,eXhauStiOn Or preSSure and alSO frOm re-curring depreSSiOn.After hiS Wife S death,~arriSOn POrter tOOk hiS fOur children tO live With hiS Stern and puritanical mOther in Kyle,TeXaS(~endrick2-3).POrter later WrOte that She blamed her father fOr their pOverty and hiS lack Of effOrt tO at-tempt tO rectify the SituatiOn.Givner attributeS POrter S rela-tiOnShipS With men,including fOur failed marriageS and numer-OuS lOve affairS With yOunger,married Or OtherWiSe unSuitable men,tO the pSychOlOgical damage cauSed by her father S vile temper and capriciOuS attentiOnS(50-51).COnverSely,Givner creditS the abSence Of traditiOnal parental mOdelS With freeing POrter frOm traditiOnal thinking regarding the rOleS Of WOmen, Which cOntributed tO her early determinatiOn tO live a different life than that intO Which She had been bOrn(63).POrter inSiStS that She WaS determined tO be a Writer frOm the age Of SiX de-Spite the ridicule Of her family(Givner,105-106).The Only Stable influence in POrter S childhOOd WaS her dOminant and puritanical paternal grandmOther,a great StOry-teller WhO arOuSed POrter S intereSt in family hiStOry and WaS later fictiOnalized in POrter S Gay family StOrieS.Grandma Cat died When POrter WaS eleven yearS Old,and the family mOved tO San AntOniO,Where POrter attended the private ThOmaS SchOOl fOr Only One year.She alSO Studied acting and muSic and per-fOrmed in Summer StOck(Givner83).AShamed Of her pOOr backgrOund,She later maintained She had been educated in a cOnvent SchOOl(~endrick3).POrter Said that her time in San AntOniO cemented her life-lOng affinity With MeXicO(Givner 79).At16,in an attempt tO eScape her family and gain financial Security,POrter married JOhn~enry KOOntz,a railrOad clerk, and cOnverted tO CathOliciSm tO pacify hiS family(~endrick4). POrter and KOOntz had nOthing in cOmmOn,and the divOrce peti-tiOn Of1915StateS that he abuSed her phySically(Givner91). POrter changed her name tO Katherine Anne after her grand-mOther.She retained her adOpted religiOn,hOWever,Givner be-lieveS that it Offered her cOmfOrt in her laSt yearS,deSpite Givner S inability tO cOnfirm Or diSavOW true faith cOncerning POrter S religiOuS beliefS(508-9).FOllOWing the divOrce,POrter WaS diagnOSed With tubercu-lOSiS and Spent tWO yearS in SanatOriumS.In1917,at the largeSSe Of a fellOW patient WhOSe huSband OWned the paper, She began her jOurnaliSm career in FOrt WOrth at the Critic, Where She WrOte drama criticiSm and SOciety gOSSip.She then critigued mOvieS,drama,vaudeville and muSic fOr the ROcky MOuntain NeWS and almOSt died in Denver during the influenza epidemic Of1918,later fictiOnalizing thiS eXperience in Pale ~OrSe,Pale Rider.In1919,POrter mOved tO GreenWich Village,NeW YOrk and SuppOrted herSelf by ghOStWriting,Writing children S StO-rieS,and publicity WOrk fOr a mOtiOn picture cOmpany.In1920, She eagerly accepted a magazine jOb in MeXicO and participated in refOrmS in educatiOn and the artS inStituted during the MeXi-can RevOlutiOn(Givner147-148).She taught dance at a girl S SchOOl and kept cOmpany With intellectualS and revOlutiOniStS. ~er eXperienceS in MeXicO Were the baSiS fOr Maria COncep-tiOn;her firSt publiShed StOry,and FlOWering JudaS,cOnSid-ered her beSt ShOrt StOry.POrter S StOrieS Were cOnSiStently and clOSely baSed On incidentS She heard,peOple She kneW and per-SOnal eXperience.She eXplainS thiS prOceSS,all Of my eXperi-ence SeemS tO be Simply memOry.thOuSandS Of memOrieS cOn-verge,harmOnize,arrange themSelveS arOund a central idea in a cOherent fOrm,and I Write a StOry(~endrick1).AccuSed Of radicaliSm,POrter left MeXicO in1921and returned tO NeW YOrk Where She WrOte and publiShed Maria COnceptiOn in 1922in Century magazine.In1922,nOW in her early thirtieS,POrter realized She had nOt yet fulfilled her OWn eXpectatiOnS perSOnally Or prOfeSSiOn-ally.She Wanted a child and tOld friendS that She had Several miScarriageS and a Still-bOrn SOn(Givner171).Givner at-tributeS her lack Of literary prOductivity tO a ShOrt attentiOn Span.POrter lOved traveling and entertaining and WaS eaSily di-011verted by trips,friends or a new love affair.In1926,Porter married Ernest Stock,an English interior decorator and painter ten years her junior,and moved to Connecticut,but found it dif-ficult to concentrate on work while in a relationship.She left Stock after contracting gonorrhea,ostensibly from him,and un-dergoing a hysterectomy due to the infection(Givner175).She supported herself by writing book reviews for the New York ~erald Tribune,the New Republic,and the Nation(~endrick 7).~er association with a group of Southern writers in New York including Robert Penn Warren and Allen Tate helped her maturation as a writer by making her see her background as a source of material rather than a liability.In1929she became ill,and a group of devoted friends sent her to recover in Bermuda.The atmosphere reminded her of Southern plantation life,and she was inspired to create the background of Miranda Gay,her fictional alter ego,and write the first story of this series,The Fig Tree.She returned to New York and,in1930,with the help of her lover,critic and bi-ographer,Matthew Josephson,she published Flowering Judas, the volume of short stories that established her critical reputa-tion(Givner204,216,219).In1930,Porter returned to Mexico to work on a novel that eventually became Ship of Fools and married Eugene Pressley, an aspiring writer thirteen years younger than her,who was lat-er characterized as David Scott in the novel.~e was faithful to her and supported her financially,but resented her work(Givn-er229,245).In1931,Porter was awarded a Guggenheim fel-lowship,and her log of that voyage from Vera Cruz to Bremen, Germany became Ship of Fools thirty years later.She met~er-mann Goring in Berlin on at least one occasion(Givner249-51),and after the war,she claimed that she had predicted the Nazi movement and tried to write to newspapers in the U.S to warn them,but Givens discounts this.~endrick agrees,citing Elinor Langer,in speculating that Porter fell into a luxurious life in Paris and became disinterested in politics and apathetic about the Nazi problem(11).Porter settled in Paris and married Pressley in1933.She returned to the U.S.in1936and went home to Texas for the first time in15years(Givner294).She divorced Pressley in 1938,but the seven years she spent with him were some of her most productive,working on stories set in her native Texas cen-tered on the Miranda Gay character(~endrick10).After the divorce,Porter immediately married her last husband,Albert Erskine,a graduate student and business manager of the South-ern Review and twenty years younger than Porter.~e was hor-rified to find out her real age,and the marriage was short-lived.By1939,Porter was receiving outstanding literary reviews. The New York Times printed,~er work is of unmistakable guality,simple in pattern,substantial,and honestly moving. The New Yorker printed,she shared with~emingway and a mere scattering of other writers both the will and the ability to create by suggestion(Givner314).She made public appear-ances,lectured,taught at writers workshops and reveled in liv-ing the part of a Southern lady and a grande dame of literature (~endrick10-11).She tried to solve ongoing financial prob-lems by negotiating advances for work she never finished but was paralyzed by the idea of deadlines and commitments(Givn-er323-324).In1943she took an appointment as the first Chair of Poet-ry at the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C..She pub-lished The Leaning Tower and Other Stories in1944(~endrick 10).When an affair with a young married soldier ended badly, she left for~ollywood in January,1945to take a job as a scriptwriter that lasted only13weeks.Porter was frustrated by creative differences over the dialogue,infuriated by censorship and found the people in the movie business vulgar(Givner 348).She stayed in California four years working on her novel and writing literary critigue.She could be extremely critical of other writers including Gertrude Stein and was perfectly capa-ble of turning on a friend.She criticized Robert Penn Warrens treatment of~uey Long in All the King s Men as sentimentaliz-ing a villain(Givner353-354).She had vehement,sometimes illogical opinions,She believed that a writer who tried to ex-plain,understand,or present sympathetically a morally repre-hensible character was in collusion with that character,there-by siding with evil(Givner355).In the late40 s and early50 s,Porter taught at Stanford and the University of Michigan.She was extremely sensitive to slights,and in this setting her lack of a college degree made her insecurities surface.Porter had always liked teaching,but was undisciplined.She would spend hours talking to students she found interesting,forgetting about appointments with others and freguently not showing up for class at all.She changed the curriculum and expected student papers to agree with her opin-ions;however the students loved her,and her classes were ex-tremely popular(362-3,391-5).Under pressure from publishers who had given her ad-vances,Porter continued work on her novel in Connecticut and New York,saying that she was tired to death of it(Givner 438,423).Finally on April Fools Day,1962,Ship of Fools was published with a fanfare of publicity and primarily favorable early reviews.Porter calls Ship,this world on its voyage to e-ternity(Norton1975).Warren calls the bestseller a triumph,a masterpiece and a work of genius and estimates the American positive/negative response at about80/20percent(134,138). ~endrick calls it a gigantic work,subtle and forceful,naturalis-tic and symbolic(119).Darlene Unrue,in her introduction to Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter,maintains the novel was not as well received abroad,especially in Germany,due to the unflattering German characterizations(4).~arry Mooney criticizes the novel as episodic with emphasis on characters in-stead of events,then criticizes the characters as devoid of hope and lacking in self-knowledge(56,59).Theodore Solotaroff further criticizes the failure of these characters to grow and change and labels Porter a short-story writer(Givner450).111She was accused Of being anti-Semitic because her One Jewish character was pOrtrayed as the least appealing,hating gentiles while hypOcritically making his living by selling Christian reli-giOus articles(MOOney61).Givner defends this by speculating that the Jewish character is purpOsely unpleasant tO keep the bOOk frOm descending intO melOdrama(470).Givner alsO guOtes blatant anti-Semitic remarks bOth verbal and written made by POrter that Givner believes are part Of a general racism On POrter s part(414,450-451).When full-length critical stud-ies Of her wOrk were published,POrter became irratiOnally en-raged when they printed truths abOut her early backgrOund,fOr example,her Original name,Callie.PersOnally Offended by the prOpOrtiOnately small number Of bad reviews,POrter drank ex-cessively,while leading the lavish sOcial life in WashingtOn D.C.that she had always wanted.United Artists bOught the film rights tO Ship Of FOOls fOr400,000.In1966,POrter wOn the Pulitzer Prize and the NatiOnal BOOk Award fOr The COllected StOries Of Katherine Anne POrter(Givner456-76).POrter arranged tO leave her literary papers tO the Univer-sity Of Maryland,flattered when they made her an hOnOrary dOctOr Of~umane Letters and set up a Katherine Anne POrter rOOm in their library(Givner478-81).~er health declined and her persOnal secretary,Bill Wilkins,assembled the material fOr her last published wOrk,The Never Ending WrOng,an essay abOut the1977SaccO-Vanzetti executiOns(Givner499-500). POrter died On September18,1980(Givner509).Ref erence,[1]Givner,JOan.Katherine Anne POrter,A Life.New YOrk,SimOn and Schuster,1982[2]~endrick,GeOrge.Katherine Anne POrter,New YOrk, Twayne,1965.[3]MOOney,~arry JOhn,Jr.The FictiOn and Criticism Of Katherine Anne POrter.Pittsburgh,University Of Pittsburgh Press,1962.[4]Warren,RObert Penn ed.Katherine Anne POrter,A COllectiOn Of Critical Essays.EnglewOOd Cliffs,New Jersey, Prentice-~all,Inc.,1979.[5]Unrue,Darlene~arbOur.Critical Essays On Katherine Anne POrter,New YOrk,G.K.~allg CO.LOndOn,1997.(上接第113页)阻碍了法治的进程,因此清理管理者的错误思想及顽固不化的管理人员势在必行O学生的思想观念系统突出表现在顺民或说奴性思想严重,其诱因却是法治主体系统及管理者的思想观念系统的缺憾O(三)~教育系统目前我国高校大多都强化对学生进行遵纪守法和校规校纪的教育,而这种教育却是片面强调学生的义务而绝口不提其享有的权利,这本身就与法治的要求背道而驰,这种教育只是针对学生而使得管理者法治观念淡薄,因此必须改革现存的法治教育O要强调学生作为一个公民享有哪些具体的权利,不要单纯讲学生不应当有某种行为,同时也要讲学生享有哪些自由9要在申明学生义务的同时,告知其权利O学校制定或增删校规应向全校师生公告,应保证管理人员和学生尽皆知晓,同时作出必要的解释O而对管理者的培训更要加强,使其树立正确的法治观念O(四)~法制系统建立法制系统一是普遍适用的法,包括<宪法>~<教育法>等,这一部分我国的立法在形式上较为完备,但缺乏可操作性,并且保留了较多的~人治色彩,<高等教育法>作为针对高等教育的特别法也未对高校必须依法对学生进行管理以及学生和校方的权利~义务~纠纷的解决等内容加以全面规定,而在这方面国外的立法远远走在我们前面,国外把校内管理的违纪行为,均在法律中明确规定相应的责任,并纳入法定的程序进行处罚,这些立法均可借鉴O二是针对某一特定高校的内部管理之~法O在我国尚没有规范某一大学内部管理的大学法O但国家教委指出, <普通高等学校学生管理规定>是高等学校学生管理的行政法规,各地区高教部门和各高等学校应在<普通高等学校学生管理规定>的原则下制定实施细则O由此各高校自行制定校规,虽无~法之名,却有~法之实,它与法律都是具有强制性的行为规则O目前我国各高校虽普遍有成文校规,但其立法主体~立法程序的合法性,立法技术的科学性等都值得怀疑,因此必须加强这方面的法制建设O同时加强法治的辅助系统建设,学校的学生处~保卫处等职能部门必须秉承权力法定~公开透明等法治的基本原则,严格依法行使职权~履行职责,保障学生的权利得以现实的实现O学校也应采用多种形式,尽一切可能营造校园的法治氛围,使法治深入人心O(五)~监督系统既要调查法治实施的情况,又要对违法行为进行查处和纠正9学校领导要设立信箱和接待日,倾听学生的意见,及时纠正基层管理者的违法行为9学校职能部门要向学代会汇报工作,接受学代会的质询9校内传媒要客观~公正的报道和评述校内发生的事件9学生团体及其代表对学校管理工作的建议和批评应当有正当渠道并确认为正当行为而不应受到非法追究,学校也不应怕受影响而人为的去追究管理者的管理责任等O高校学生管理之法治化,是针对我国传统高校长久以来存在的~人治而提出的O实现法治化的目标是将高校学生管理纳入法治轨道实行严格管理,避免管理工作中侵害老师~学生合法权益和自由之发生,但学生管理工作仍然应当秉承~诲人不倦~~百年树人的教育理念,绝不能无原则的迎合和迁就学生的一切不合理要求,对一些高校标新立异提出的所谓~学生是学校的衣食父母~~学生是上帝等口号,是从一个极端走到另一个极端,是~人治另一层面的表达,实质上也是对~法治的背离,更是要不得的O211A Brief Literary Biography of Katherine Anne Porter作者：贾燕梅作者单位：四川乐山师范学院外语系刊名：科技信息（学术版）英文刊名：SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION年，卷(期)：2007(9)1.Unrue Darlene Harbour Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter 19972.Warren Robert Penn Katherine Anne Porter:A Collection of Critical Essays 19793.Mooney Harry John Jr The Fiction and Criticism of Katherine Anne Porter 19624.Hendrick George Katherine Anne Porter 19655.Givner Joan Katherine Anne Porter:A Life 19821.邓红花.陈怡.Deng Honghua.Chen Yi凯瑟琳·安·波特小说中的"另类"人物[期刊论文]-萍乡高等专科学校学报2008,25(2)2.陈娟服从和违背：凯瑟琳·安·波特短篇小说中的女性身体叙述[学位论文]20083.姚璐浅谈波特短篇小说中引语话语模式的运用[期刊论文]-福建师大福清分校学报2011(4)4.袁克蕙女性意识的觉醒:韦瑟罗尔奶奶形象评析[期刊论文]-考试周刊2009(51)5.龙志勇.LONG Zhi-yong20年来国内凯瑟琳·安·波特研究综述[期刊论文]-安徽商贸职业技术学院学报2010,09(3)6.王晓玲一个独立而迷惘的灵魂 --凯瑟琳·安·波特的政治和宗教观[期刊论文]-当代外国文学2002(2)7.段汉武.钱虹.DUAN Han-wu.QIAN Hong《被遗弃的韦瑟罗尔奶奶》的创作手法[期刊论文]-安徽工业大学学报（社会科学版）2005,22(2)8.李立美国南方女性的精神困境——凯瑟琳·安·波特短篇小说女性人物分析[学位论文]20049.康玉.金露《被遗弃的韦瑟罗尔奶奶》中的隐喻[期刊论文]-文学与艺术2010,2(1)10.吴良红.Wu Lianghong凯瑟琳·安·波特作品中的叙述视角[期刊论文]-苏州教育学院学报2006,23(3)本文链接：/Periodical_kjxx-xsb200709064.aspx。
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• In 1930, she married Eugene Pressley. • In 1938, upon returning from Europe, she divorced Pressley and married Albert Russel Erskine. He reportedly divorced her in 1942 after discovering her real age. She never remarried. • Between 1948 and 1958, Porter taught at Stanford University. • In 1962, she published her only novel, Ship of Fools, which was the bestselling novel in America for that year; its success finally gave her financial security .
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"Maria Concepcion," 1922 《玛利亚康塞普西翁 》 "Magic", 1928 《魔术师 》 "Rope", 1928 《绳》 "Theft", 1929 《偷窃》 "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", 1930 《被遗弃的韦瑟罗尔奶奶》 "The Cracked LookingGlass," 1932 《有裂纹的镜子 》 "The Old Order," 1958 《旧秩序 》 "The Fig Tree", 1960 《无花果树 》 "Holiday," 1960 《假日》 "A Christmas Story," 1967 《圣诞故事》
对凯瑟琳·安·波特《愚人船》寓言性的解读
对凯瑟琳·安·波特《愚人船》寓言性的解读【摘要】凯瑟琳·安·波特是一位著名的作家，她的作品《愚人船》被广泛认为具有寓言性。
本文将从凯瑟琳·安·波特的生平和作品背景入手，介绍《愚人船》的主要情节和人物，然后从两个角度解读其寓言性。
第一角度是对人性的探讨，第二角度是对社会现象的批判。
文章将探讨《愚人船》在当代社会的启示，分析凯瑟琳·安·波特的作品对当代社会的影响，并总结对《愚人船》寓言性的解读。
通过深入解读《愚人船》，读者可以更好地理解凯瑟琳·安·波特的思想，同时也能从中获得对当代社会的启示。
【关键词】凯瑟琳·安·波特, 《愚人船》, 寓言, 生平, 背景, 情节, 人物, 当代社会, 启示, 解读, 角度, 文学, 作品1. 引言1.1 凯瑟琳·安·波特凯瑟琳·安·波特（Katherine Anne Porter）是20世纪美国文学领域的重要作家之一，她以精湛的散文和小说作品闻名于世。
波特生于德克萨斯州，成长于贫困的家庭，她经历了生活的艰辛和挑战，这些经历深刻地影响了她的文学创作。
波特的作品常常描绘人性的复杂和矛盾，揭示人类内心深处的欲望、恐惧和希望。
她的文风清晰流畅，情感真挚动人，引人深思。
波特以其对人类本质的深刻洞察和对生活的敏锐观察而广受赞誉。
《愚人船》是波特的代表作之一，这部小说以一艘命名为“愚人船”的旧船为载体，讲述了一群各具特点的人在海上的冒险与挣扎。
通过船上人物之间的相互作用和情感纠葛，波特探讨了人类的欲望、道德选择和生存困境。
这部作品融入了寓言的元素，深刻反映了人类的种种弱点和错误，展现了作家对现实世界的深刻思考和观察。
1.2 《愚人船》凯瑟琳·安·波特的《愚人船》是一部充满寓言性的小说，通过讽刺和幽默的笔调，描绘了一个充满笑料和荒诞场景的世界。
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Between 1920 and 1930, Porter traveled back and forth between Mexico and New York City and began publishing short stories and essays. Her first published story was "Maria Concepcion" in The Century Magazine. In 1930, she published her first short story collection, Flowering Judas and Other Stories.
In 1906, at age sixteen, Porter left home and married John Henry Koontz. Koontz was physically abusive, once while drunk, he threw her down the stairs, breaking her ankle. They divorced officially in 1915.
In 1962, she published her only novel, Ship of Fools, which was the best-selling novel in America for that year; its success finally gave her financial security (she reportedly sold the film rights for $400,000).
In 1915, she asked that her name be changed to Katherine Anne Porter as part of her divorce decree.
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Symbolism Name: Weatherall: stand all, endure all Jilted: she was jilted by her lover, her husband, her child and finally God. Her husband died at young age, her child Hapsy left her and her daughter Cornelia treated her like a child, she could not understand her. Light: life
Three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature National Book Award
a postage stamp issued by U.S. Postal Service
Style
a. Feminist author. The main characters in her novel are always women. They are as strong and great as men. b.She focuses on the darker side of reality but uses her own sort of humor to lighten her writings. c. imagery and symbolism are major devices in her works d.ironic, objective and sensitive
• Stream of consciousness and interior monologue are distinguished from dramatic monologue, where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, and is used chiefly in poetry or drama. In stream of consciousness, the speaker's thought processes are more often depicted as addressed to oneself and is primarily a fictional device.
Narrative order of the story:
psychological order instead of chronological order. The story is shifting back and forth from the past to the present; Granny’s memories are also shifting from the consciousness to semiconsciousness.
Finally, with this technique, the author can describe the feelings, memories and judgments of the Granny directly from her own perspective
Use some words to summarize the qualities of Granny Weatherall. endurance, strong and brave, hardworking, kind, passionate, capable
List the events happened to Granny in her life according to chronological order. a. married her husband John; b. Giving birth to her children: (Cornelia, Lydia, Jimmy, George, Hapsy); c. death of Hapsy; d.Jilted by her lover (George); e. death of his husband; f. endure hardships and work hard to raise the children Jilted by her lover (George) → married her husband John → Giving birth to her children: (Cornelia, Lydia, Jimmy, George, Hapsy) → death of Hapsy → death of his husband → endure hardships and work hard to raise the children
Hale Waihona Puke Function of stream of consciousness
First, it reveals Granny’s alternating confused and clear thoughts during her final moments as she moves from lucid consciousness to confused semiconsciousness.
1. How does her daughter treat granny? Can she accept her daughter’s attitude towards her? 2. Granny remind her past days, tell the names of her children. Who is John? 3. Find the jobs and works granny has done in the past.
Moreover, it helps the narrator to tell the story by moving back and forth from the past to the present. (change the chronological time to psychological time)
works
A Ship of Fools (1962)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1930)
1. How old is Granny Weatherall? 2. What’s the relation between Granny Weatherall and Cornelia? 3. Granny’s mind is wandering between consciousness to illusion, find some parts that are describing the illusion of Granny.
Education Not so much formal education Experience
Actress, singer, teacher, journalist and novelist
Marriage
four marriages
Death Katherine died at the age of 90, in the year 1980. Awards Pulitzer prize owner in the year 1966.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890 --- 1980)
Life Family: Katherine Anne Porter was born in Texas, brought up by her grandmother who became the model in Porter's famous story The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (1930).
1. What is the most miserable thing Granny Weatherall experienced in her life? 2. What’s the name of Granny Weatherall?
3. Tell the names of her other children. Can you guess what happened to Hapsy? 4. Who is George? Did she really forget him?
What techniques are used in this short story?
stream of consciousness; symbolism
Stream of Consciousness
• Stream of consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by a flow of thoughts and images, which may not always appear to have a coherent structure or cohesion and make the prose difficult to follow, tracing a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. The term was first introduced to the field of literary studies from psychology by philosopher and psychologist William James, brother of writer Henry James.