So Famous and So Gay : The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein /
"Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputatio...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Beneath the Mask; Introduction: Stein and Capote in Theory; PART I. TRUMAN CAPOTE: "HERE WAS THIS LITTLE CREATURE"; 1. Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote; 2. Capote, Forster, and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury; PART II. GERTRUDE STEIN: A FURTHER ORDER OF STRANGE; 3. Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on a Mistaken Embrace; 4. Gertrude Stein in Life and TIME: A Respectable Commodity; 5. Three Lesbian Lives: A Map of Same-Sex Passion; 6. Coda: Janet Malcolm and Woody Allen Adrift in the Past.