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