Katherine Anne Porter’s story is subtitled “1896–1905,” but she wrote it in 1936, and the story has the unmistakable atmosphere of the Great Depression. Characters of ordinary background seem helplessly entangled in a web of Determinism in “Noon Wine”: the… Read More ›
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” was the first of Katherine Anne Porter’s Texas stories, all drawn from persistent memories of her own impoverished and motherless childhood as well as from her memories of her sternly rigorous and religious grandmother, Catherine… Read More ›
In the mid-1930s, Katherine Anne Porter’s early work was attracting the favorable attention of America’s burgeoning New Critics, whose techniques of close literary analysis to this day remain useful for reading Porter’s tightly written, symbol and imageladen fiction. Her story… Read More ›
In this novella from her first collection, Flowering Judas and Other Stories, published in 1930, Katherine Anne Porter creates a totally rootless character, an American expatriate in Mexico with ties to neither the past nor the future. Laura finds no… Read More ›
Katherine Anne Porter’s (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) short fiction is noted for its sophisticated use of symbolism, complex exploitation of point of view, challenging variations of ambiguously ironic tones, and profound analyses of psychological and social themes…. Read More ›
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