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The critical response to Truman Capote

Author: Joseph J Waldmeir; John Christian Waldmeir
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: Critical responses in arts and letters, no. 32
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Truman Capote
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph J Waldmeir; John Christian Waldmeir
ISBN: 0313306664 9780313306662
OCLC Number: 40150674
Description: xix, 242 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Plate du jour : soul food : Truman Capote on Black culture / Cecil M. Brown -- Metaphorical world of Truman Capote / John W. Aldridge -- Daydream and nightmare of Narcissus / Ihab H. Hassan -- Capote as gay American author / Peter G. Christensen -- On Capote's grass harp / Eric Bentley -- Grass menagerie / George Jean Nathan -- Stage : house of flowers / Richard Hayes -- Capote's tale / Leslie Fiedler -- Truman Capote : the revelation of the broken image / Paul Levine -- From Gothic to camp / Irving Malin -- Other voices, other rooms : Oedipus between the covers / Marvin E. Mengeling -- Blizzard of butterflies / H.P. Lazarus -- Birth of a heroine / Ihab H. Hassan -- Final door / Terrence Rafferty -- Capote's crime and punishment / Diana Trilling -- Kansas farm murders / Kenneth Tynan -- "Non-fiction" novel / William Wiegand -- Real toads in real gardens : reflections on the art of non-fiction fiction and the legacy of Truman Capote / David Galloway -- Religion and style in the Dogs bark and Music for chameleons / John C. Waldmeir -- "Fire, fire, fire flowing like a river, river, river" : history and postmodernism in Truman Capote's Handcarved coffins / Jack Hicks -- Gothic as vortex : the form of horror in Capote, Faulkner, and Styron / J. Douglas Perry -- Glimpses of "A good man" in Capaote's In cold blood / Jon Tuttle -- Variations on a dream : Katherine Anne Porter and Truman Capote / William L. Nance -- American tragedy and In cold blood : turning case history into art / John J. McAleer -- Major works and themes / Peter G. Christensen.
Series Title: Critical responses in arts and letters, no. 32
Responsibility: edited by Joseph J. Waldmeir and John C. Waldmeir.

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