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Provides a collection of critical essays on Truman Capote's In cold blood, exploring it as a non-fiction novel and as a true crime story, tracing its reception by reviewers, critics and the general public, discussing its impact on the real-life community and individuals it describes, and examin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tredell, Nicolas (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2020]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Capote, Truman, > 1924-1984. > In cold blood.
Capote, Truman, > 1924-1984 > Criticism and interpretation.
Capote, Truman, > 1924-1984 > Criticism.
True crime stories > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
  • "He died of life, from living a full one": Biography of Truman Capote
  • Critical Contexts
  • "I'll be damned if I'm the only killer in the courtroom": Anti-Pastoralism, Violence, and Kansas Identity in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
  • Changing Perspectives: Critical Essays on In Cold Blood, 2000-2020
  • "Something radically wrong over at the Clutter place": Mythic Truth, Monstrous Doubles, and the Killing of Nancy Clutter
  • "Strange lights and intuitive speculation": In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night
  • Critical Readings
  • When Blending Genres, Is Immaculate Factuality Possible?
  • The Treatment of Violence and Trauma in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
  • Redeemed by Its Literary Dimensions: Capote's Novel in the Light of the Critical Response
  • Written in Cold Blood: The Phenomenology of Murder
  • "There must be something wrong with us" versus "A black widow spider can't help it-but that's the point": Right and Wrong and Responsibility in In Cold Blood and Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit-Will Travel
  • What Happened in Kansas: Harper Lee's Role in In Cold Blood
  • Bloodlines: Ethnicity and Otherness in In Cold Blood
  • Masculine/Feminine: In Cold Blood and the Crisis of Gender In Cold Blood, the 1968 Film: A Survey of Reviews
  • Questions Left Hanging: The 1996 Film of In Cold Blood
  • Resources
  • Chronology of Truman Capote's Life
  • Works By Truman Capote
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.