Noon Wine
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Noon Wine is a novella by American author Katherine Anne Porter that explores moral ambiguity and tragedy on a Texas dairy farm in the late 19th century.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Noon Wine canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novella ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Noon Wine (1966 television film)
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Noon Wine (1985 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector |
Michael Fields
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Sam Peckinpah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationStar |
Fred Astaire
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Jason Robards NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia de Havilland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptedFor | television ⓘ |
| author | Katherine Anne Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
guilt
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moral ambiguity ⓘ social judgment ⓘ tragedy ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
the destructive power of suspicion
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the gap between legal innocence and moral responsibility ⓘ the impact of community opinion on individual fate ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Southern Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic fiction
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psychological fiction ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Pale Horse, Pale Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
foreshadowing
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irony ⓘ unreliable perception of events ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered one of Katherine Anne Porter’s major works ⓘ |
| majorCharacter |
Mr. Hatch
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Mrs. Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Olaf Helton NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Earle Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotElement |
a mysterious Swedish farmhand transforms a failing Texas dairy farm
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a violent confrontation leads to a killing in apparent self-defense ⓘ the community questions the protagonist’s motives ⓘ |
| protagonist | Royal Earle Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Harcourt, Brace and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | dairy farm ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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