Understanding Truman Capote

A new direction for Capote studies that reconsiders the author's place in literary criticism, the canon, and the classroom

About the author

Thomas Fahy is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Long Island University-Post. He is the author of numerous books, including Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos and Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote, and the editor of The Philosophy of Horror.

Summary

Provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author's work. By reading Capote's work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his writing and refutes any notion of Capote as disconnected from the political. Instead this study positions him as a writer deeply engaged with the social anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Fahy
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2014
• EAN: 9781611173413
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-341-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies