Böcker av Janis P. Stout

Katherine Anne Porter's life (1890-1980) closely parallelled that of her century, not only in its span but in its interests and contradictions. She was a Communist sympathiser who later became quasi-fascist, a cosmopolitan who embraced Southern agrarianism, a femme fatale and a feminist.

Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.

?Stout's breadth of reading is impressive, her prose readable, and her method scholarly.?-Library Journal

World War I is considered ""the Great War"" and World War II, ""the Good War."" The author thinks of them as two parts of a whole engaging historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief they embody. She argues that poetry captures and conveys those cultural responses.

Stout identifies five basic, recurring patterns of the journey narrative: exploration and escape; To illustrate the all-inclusiveness of the journey motif in American literature Stout pursues the theme into the realm of poetry and relates the fictional journey narrative to the American historical experience.