Monday, October 27, 2008

Paper direction

I'd like to continue to examine Silence--the writer's technique for creating silence, and the purposes for which silence is employed. Specifically, I will continue to examine the significance of certain types of communication and/or the lack thereof, focusing on Porter's "Holiday."
I used Google Scholar to search under the terms "Katherine Anne Porter" and "Silence," and turned up some interesting material. There is a citation for an article by BW Jorgensen ("The Other Side of Silence")--if you click on "Cited by 3," you'll find yourself linked to an article by Carolyn Harper called "Silent Voices: Modes of Communication in Katherine Anne Porter's 'He' and 'Holiday.'" This article discusses the ways in which the inability to communicate dehumanizes members of the family unit: while the relationship between humans and nature is teased out in both stories, the figures of Him and Ottilie represent real breaks into an animalistic existence forced on them by their families.

I also have to get my hands on the following:

Stout, Janis P. "Strategies of Reticence" (in Jane Austen, KAP, Joan Didion, book)
MK Fornataro-Neil. "Constructed Narratives and Writing Identity in the Fiction of KAP"
in 'Twentieth Century Literature,' 1998. (article).

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