Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novellas
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: , 1885-1912; , 1836-1905; , 1918
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, Suicide, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Guilt, West, U.S., Emotions, Reality, War, Farms, farmers, or farming, New Orleans, Death or dying, World War I, Hallucinations or illusions, Colorado, Southwest, Soldiers, Suffrage or voting rights, Life and death, Romanticism, Reporting or reporters, Texas, Horses, Women’s rights, Influenza, Racing
- Locales: South (U.S.), New Orleans, LA, Colorado, Texas
Places Discussed
*South Texas. Both Old Mortality and Noon Wine use Texas as their settings, but the Texases depicted in these stories are very different. Old Mortality is the first of Porter’s “Miranda” stories, generally agreed to be the most openly autobiographical portions of her work. The story is suffused with the culture of the Deep South, opening with a picture of Miranda’s dead Aunt Amy, whose idealized and romanticized memory continues to haunt the family. The family that Porter constructs for Miranda is in many ways the family Porter...
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