The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a volume of her previously published collections of fiction and four uncollected works of short fiction.[1]
Biographer Darlene Harbour Unrue traces the evolution in the critical appraisal of Porter's oeuvre:
Several important differences are apparent between the reviews of the Collected Stories [and] those of the small volumes of 1930, 1935, 1939 and 1944. Critical opinions and literary tastes had changed over the course of 35 years, and the later reviews reflect in part those changes. The reviews of her work…had become more probing. While most reviewers [of the earlier volumes] failed to grasp Porter's methods and themes, many reviewers in 1965 discerned distinguishing elements in Porter's subjects and techniques…Feminist scholars and critics, emerging early in the decade, began to show interest in Porter's work, correctly identifying mythic feminism in her fiction.[10]
"I beg the reader one gentle favor…please do not call my short novels Novelettes, or even worse, Novellas. Novelette is classical usage for a trivial, dime-store sort of thing; Novella is a slack, boneless, affected word…Please call my works by their right names: we have four that cover every division: short stories, long stories, short novels, novels [and] they seem very clear, sufficient, and plain English."—Katherine Anne Porter in the introduction "Go Little Book", June 14, 1965[11]
Literary critic for The New York Times, Howard Moss comments on the relationship between Porter's style and her subject matter:
The first concern of these stories is not esthetic. Extraordinarily well-formed, often brilliantly written, they are firmly grounded in life…Experience is the reason for their having been written, yet experience does not exist in them for its own sake; it has been formulated, but not simplified…In the best of her work, the factual and the lyrical are kept in perfect balance.[12]
Moss adds that "Miss Porter is a poet of the short story, and she never confuses the issue."[13]
Moss, Howard. 1965. The Collected Stories: A Poet of the Story in Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter (1997). Editor, Darlene Harbour Unrue. G. K. Hall and Company, New York. ISBN0-7838-0022-3
Porter, Katherine Anne. 2009. Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings. Literary Classics of the United States, New York. The Library of America Series (2009). ISBN978-1-59853-029-2
Unrue, Darlene Harbour. 1997. Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter. Editor, Darlene Harbour Unrue. G. K. Hall and Company, New York. ISBN0-7838-0022-3
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