“The journalistic criminal novel” “In Cold Blood” by Truman Garcia Capote in the context of “new journalism” problem

The success of the ‟new journalism” in the United States in the 60s of the last century had an impact on the literary process. Truman Garcia Capote's novel ‟In Cold Blood” is an attempt to create a new form of fiction and nonfiction novel, which combines the features of nonfiction and journalism. So there is a genre of ‟criminal journalistic novel”. The author is involved in the investigation of a criminal case. The analysis reveals common typological features of a crime novel. Capote's approaches to the text are investigated, which are similar to journalistic professional methods – interview, reportage, essay. A comparison with previously published works was accomplished, which localises this novel in a different epoch at a new artistic level. The study also identifies the points of contacts and variances in the evaluation of the novel in Western and Russian criticism. The article offers conclusions. Capote's novel ‟In Cold Blood” allows to be focused not only on real criminal events, but also on the moral state of American society in the proposed time frame. The novel differs from the journalistic reportage, there is a special form of a work of art-a journalistic novel-investigation. The synthesis of literature and journalism also proved fruitful for Norman Kingsley Mailer 's nonfiction novels.

Animality and Entanglement: The Gothicized “anthropological machine” in Bram Stoker’s short fiction

This paper closely reads what constitutes the “non-human” vis-à-vis animality in Bram Stoker’s often overlooked short stories, namely The Squaw and The Burial of the Rats. The Squaw is a tale about an American who murders a kitten in cold blood, and in turn, the mother grotesquely avenges her kitten. The anxiety of interspecies relationship is evident in this text, and I argue that this anxiety allows what Giorgio Agamben calls the “anthropological machine” (a system which excludes animals from the zone of livable human life) to operate. The same can be said in The Burial of the Rats where the inability to articulate a boundary between animality and humanity becomes the same thing that pervasively haunts the characters in the story. Here, the vermin and the humans become “relationally entangled” as Donna Haraway puts it and I argue that the notion of entanglement here is precisely what makes the “anthropological machine” gothic in the stories. I also suggest that what makes the representations of animals horrific is the possibility that the caesura between man and animal is non-existent.

O nonfiction novel em paralaxe: duas leituras possíveis de In Cold Blood, de Truman Capote

Este artigo busca, através de uma discussão sobre a dupla natureza discursiva da obra In cold blood (1965), de Truman Capote, apontar para duas leituras feitas do gênero ícone do jornalismo literário estadunidense: a primeira desvela os traços que fariam do gênero um legítimo “romance de não-ficção”, tal como sugeriu Capote; a outra sonega esta nomenclatura. Valemo-nos de uma análise da obra segundo as premissas da Reader-Response Criticism, avaliando as relações de texto, contexto e leitura, conforme advoga Richard Beach (1993), exame cujos traços salientam as nuances de caráter sócio-histórico e a estrutura dos elementos referenciados. Esses traços serão pensados de acordo com a atmosfera de produção da obra, relacionados, ainda, com os tipos de abordagem que alguns analistas elucidaram sobre o gênero. Nesse âmbito, buscamos problematizar, a partir da avaliação de duas leituras da obra, o desacordo em termos de gênero. Propomos um estudo metodologicamente pautado nas observações de Beach (1993), mas também nos serão de grande utilidade as leituras do romance feitas, primeiro, por Jesse Brady (2006), e, posteriormente, por Philip K. Thompkins (1968), Gerald Clarke (1989) e Ralph Voss (2011).

Atrocity at Shelton Laurel

In January 1863, a gang of Unionists in mountainous Madison County raids Marshall for its store of salt-which has been denied hem by the Confederate commissioners. They extend their looting to the home of Col. Lawrence Allen, the commander of the 64th North Carolina who has been temporarily relieved of duty. He nonetheless joins a punitive expedition led by his cousin, Lt. Col. James Keith. They kill a number of Unionists, torture the wives and mothers of other suspects, and capture thirteen men and boys. On the pretext of marching them to Tennessee for trial, they take them in to the woods of Shelton Laurel and shoot them all down in cold blood. The women of Shelton Laurel discover the atrocity and recover the bodies, launching a manhunt and investigations that will eventually be taken up in the U.S. Congress.

Neuronal connections killed in cold blood

Loss of neuronal junctions triggered by a clotting factor promotes cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease.