Bøker av Janis P. Stout

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.

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

Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West.

A biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind.

Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach - she organizes her memories around the houses she's lived in. Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout's houses twine their way through this memoir, along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages good and bad, and quietness for engaging in the important last work of life.

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.