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Truman Capote American Literature
2,688 wordsAmerican literature in the thirties and forties, was dominated by social consciousness. The preferred fiction was sociological prose, much of it naturalistic. Thus, when Other Voices, Other Rooms was published soon after World War II, it was criticized as being out of the main stream. Within a decade, however, as other young writers gained renown, it became apparent that Truman Capotes novel was a piece in a new pattern of fiction, one that was described by terms such as narcissistic, grotesque,...
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