Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote--his literary genius and flamboyant life-style--details of his childhood years spent in Monroeville, Alabama, have remained a mystery. Truman ...Capote's Southern Years explores Capote's formative years, the abandonment by his mother, and his early life in the care of elderly relatives. In Monroeville young Capote formed significant bonds and played childhood games with his cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and next door neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee. Through the tales told here by Carter, readers discover the lively imagination and the early tragedies of a brilliant child.
Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation. What has received little attention, however, is Capote's last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless ...skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his “swans.” When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled—disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In this book, the book sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answers the perplexing mystery—why did Capote write a book that would destroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological techniques, the book illuminates Capote's early years in the South—a time that Capote himself described as a “snake's nest of No's”—no parents to speak of, no friends but books, no hope, no future. Out of this dark childhood emerged Capote's prominent dual life-scripts: neurotic Capote, anxious, vulnerable, hypersensitive, expecting to be hurt; and Capote the disagreeable destroyer, emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge. The book shows how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or taken for granted, engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and many other writers. And the book reveals how this tendency fed into Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly disguised roman à clef that trashed his high-society friends.
Truman Capote once remarked, "My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the greatest living thing"; nonetheless, his legacy is in many ways defined by his complex ...relationship with cinema, Hollywood, and celebrity itself. InTruman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, skillfully weaving the most relevant elements of Capote's biography- including his highly flamboyant public persona and his friendships and feuds with notable stars-with insightful critical analysis of the films, screenplays, and adaptations of his works that composed his fraught relationship with the Hollywood machine.
Capote's masterful short stories and novels ensure his status as an iconic author of the twentieth century, and his screenplays, includingBeat the Devil,Indiscretion of an American Wife, andThe Innocents, allowed him to collaborate with such Hollywood heavyweights as Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, and David O. Selznick. Throughout his professional life he circulated freely in a celebrity milieu populated by such notables as Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. Cinematic adaptations of his literature, most notablyBreakfast at Tiffany'sandIn Cold Blood, play with or otherwise alter Capote's queer literary themes, often bleaching his daring treatment of homosexuality in favor of heterosexual romance.
Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Moviesreveals Capote's literary works to be not merely coincident to film but integral to their mutual creation, paying keen attention to the ways in which Capote's identity as a gay southerner influenced his and others' perceptions of his literature and its adaptations. Pugh's research illuminates Capote's personal and professional successes and disappointments in the film industry, helping to create a more nuanced portrait of the author and bringing fresh details to light.
Translators and interpreters have always played a key role as intercultural mediators, however, their biographies and functions as active agents of cultural change have only recently started to be ...studied. Following the sociological and material turn in translation studies, there has been a growing interest in the figure of the literary translator, not as a category of the translation process, but as a living human being who not „only” produces texts, but influences cultural transfer, introduces new poetics and shapes literary canons. Nowadays, researchers point to the necessity of describing the place and role of translators not only within Translation Studies, but above all, in the network of social contacts and relationships. The sociology of translators includes such issues as the status of translators in different cultures, pay rates, place and conditions of work, the public discourse of translation, i.e. the manifestations of the public image of the translating profession, which is visible, for example, in the press or in literary works. This area also encompasses research on translators’ attitudes towards their work, as revealed in essays, interviews, prefaces and translators’ archives. The paper focuses on the biography of the translator, placed in a broad historical and social context and thus, in the cultural and sociological dimensions of translator studies. In examining the biography of the Polish translator Bronisław Zieliński, the methodology of microhistory (adapted for translation studies by Jeremy Munday) will be used and combined with Anthony Chesterman’s theoretical proposal of translator studies.
La Revista CES Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia no es ajena al crecimiento y desarrollo de las publicaciones científicas, con mayores exigencias éticas y de responsabilidad social frente al entorno. ...Es de suma gravedad desde el ejercicio de evaluación que realizamos detectar intensiones de plagio (utilización de ideas, palabras o resultados de otra persona, sin el reconocimiento que se merecen), fabricación (presentar o crear datos ficticios), falsificación (manipulación de datos o procedimientos experimentales, buscando favorecer resultados atendiendo un conflicto de interés) o duplicación de publicaciones.
In 1959, on the Kansas high plains, two ex-convict drifters fell upon a defenseless farm family, slaying them 'in cold blood'. As the subject of a book widely regarded as the first of the modern true ...crime genre—Truman Capote's In Cold Blood—the murdered and murderers live on in the spectral, haunting the minds of the public as the horrors of random crimes and senseless violence. Paying close attention to the cultural production of both the present and absent, this paper considers how violence haunts commonplace geographies and the imaginations of everyday actors, through the lens of banal crime reporting and celebrated true crime novels. Doing so, it offers unique context and insight into the production of suspect identities and the social insecurities that underpin everyday life.
KEYWORDS: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Charles Manson, automobility In this essay I consider the true crime and automotive contexts of major work by Joan Didion ...and Hunter S. Thompson. I examine the specific role played by automobility in the commission and narrative rendition of era-defining or (as these writers might frame it) world-ending true crime, especially their reaction to the apocalyptic indications of the Manson Family murders. Despite their starkly differentiated literary personas, both Didion and Thompson used themes of speed and travel to distance themselves from Manson, and yet both ultimately exploited such "little fellas" (both the impoverished and socially marginalized Charles Manson and elsewhere the Hells Angels) to enrich their own literary fame.
Truman Capote's description of the 1959 murder of four members of the Clutter family in their Kansas home is often described as the first ‘true crime novel’. The medical evidence came from two ...sources: court-appointed generalists from the local community and a keen, young, forensic psychiatrist from out of town. The prosecution (psychiatrist) tends to take a more reductionist approach, dismissing psychological nuance with a demand for medical certainty.
El periodismo narrativo suele contar todo tipo de historias y eventos de carácternoticioso, entre ellos, las crónicasde viaje, que a lo largo del tiempo han sido escritaspor literatos y periodistas. ...En las crónicas predomina la narratividad y el empleo de figuras literarias, las cuales sirven para proporcionarle matiz y realce artístico al texto. Algunos representantes de este tipo de narraciones son Bartolomé de las Casas, Pedro Cieza de León, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway y Albert Camus. En este estudio se plantean los objetivos de analizar, comparar y establecerel estilo y las herramientas del periodismo narrativo que utilizan dos crónicas que pertenecen al periodismoliterario, y que corresponden a dos autores latinoamericanos: Alma Guillermoprieto, autoracontemporánea y Rubén Darío, autormodernista. Son dos crónicas que describen sus experiencias y lo que significa para cada uno el viajea Nicaragua (país centroamericano), travesía que ocurre en épocas diferentes. Esta investigación es descriptiva-comparativa, no experimental y cualitativa. Se emplea la técnica de análisis de contenido y su instrumento es la matriz de análisis. La población es igual a la muestra: una crónica de cada autor.
When one recalls the queer characters and landscapes of Truman Capote, what images does the memory offer? In all likelihood, one envisions prepubescent protagonists traversing pastoral atmospheres ...rich with gothic inspiration, unearthing their proto-sexual otherness somewhere among the cattails with a sense of astonishment that, at its most generous, could be described as dubious. And while the characters of works such as The Grass Harp, "A Christmas Memory," and Other Voices, Other Rooms may offer themselves to readings of sexual queerness in the tradition Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick emphatically rejects for positing "gender and sexuality as continuous and collapsible categories", Svedjan is motivated by more contemporary maneuvers in queer theory to instead dwell on queerness as a more thorough resistance to broader "regimes of the normal," wherein--as Michael Warner asserts--queerness "has the effect of pointing out a wide field of normalization."
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