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A Journey Inward : Initiation in Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories
… the initiation motif in Katharine Anne Porter's "Miranda stories" uncovers her maturing protagonist's search for order and personal truth. Miranda's inward journey ultimately leads not to nihilism and despair, as some critics suggest, but to an honest and courageous affirmation of the independent …
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Reordering The Old Order : a woman's response to Porter's Miranda stories.
In Katherine Anne Porter's collection of short stories The Old Order, a young female character, Miranda, progresses through steps of maturity and self-realization. This same character appears in many of Porter's later works as a more mature woman. Because Miranda has played a central role in many …
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The canon of memory and rhetoric as a way of knowing in selected Miranda stories of Katherine Anne Porter
… proves central in a number of instances in her Miranda short story cycle. For example, her sense of memory adheres to the philosopher Henri Bergson's concept of time as pure duration. Bergson defines time as a state in which the present is not separated from the past or the future and one in …