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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Truman Capote"”.
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Rich, Attractive People In Attractive Places Doing Attractive Things
… figures from American pop culture including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, William Powell and Babe Paley. It traces the upward trajectory of Sunny's life from a modest childhood in 1920's Los Angeles to the heights of social success in the unforgiving world of Café Society to …
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
… Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em> and Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em>. American Gothic novels often represent patterns of historical violence. Therefore, analyzing moments of ecophobia within these novels allows me to draw a connection between harmful constructs of nature and …
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Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers
… I show how Perry Smith, a historical figure in Truman Capote's <em>In Cold Blood</em>, and Josef Kavalier, a fictional character in Michael Chabon's <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>, represent these ambiguities. Both men become murderers acting out violence that was inflicted …