Literary Journalism In The Twentieth Century

Author : Norman Sims
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810125193

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Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Sims Pdf

This wide-ranging collection of critical essays on literary journalism addresses the shifting border between fiction and non-fiction, literature and journalism. Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century addresses general and historical issues, explores questions of authorial intent and the status of the territory between literature and journalism, and offers a case study of Mary McCarthy’s 1953 piece, "Artists in Uniform," a classic of literary journalism. Sims offers a thought-provoking study of the nature of perception and the truth, as well as issues facing journalism today.

Author : Norman Sims,Medill School of Journalism
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810124691

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True Stories by Norman Sims,Medill School of Journalism Pdf

Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism. Sims traces more than a century of its history, examining the cultural connections, competing journalistic schools of thought, and innovative writers that have given literary journalism its power. Seminal exmples of the genre provide ample context and background for the study of this style of journalism.

Author : Norman Sims,Mark Kramer
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780345382221

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Literary Journalism by Norman Sims,Mark Kramer Pdf

Some of the best and most original prose in America today is being written by literary journalists. Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writing -- literary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful styles and fresh approaches. In Literary Journalism, editors Norman Sims and Mark Kramer have collected the finest examples of literary journalism from both the masters of the genre who have been working for decades and the new voices freshly arrived on the national scene. The fifteen essays gathered here include: -- John McPhee's account of the battle between army engineers and the lower Mississippi River -- Susan Orlean's brilliant portrait of the private, imaginative world of a ten-year-old boy -- Tracy Kidder's moving description of life in a nursing home -- Ted Conover's wild journey in an African truck convoy while investigating the spread of AIDS -- Richard Preston's bright piece about two shy Russian mathematicians who live in Manhattan and search for order in a random universe -- Joseph Mitchell's classic essay on the rivermen of Edgewater, New Jersey -- And nine more fascinating pieces of the nation's best new writing In the last decade this unique form of writing has grown exuberantly -- and now, in Literary Journalism, we celebrate fifteen of our most dazzling writers as they work with great vitality and astonishing variety.

Author : John C. Hartsock
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050550253

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A History of American Literary Journalism by John C. Hartsock Pdf

Aiming to provide a history of and contextualize a literary form he calls literary journalism, Hartsock (communication studies, SUNY Cortland) provides evidence of the emergence of a "modern" American literary journalism; discusses reasons for the form's emergence and epistemological consequences; describes antecedents to the form; analyzes how to distinguish it from other nonfiction forms; offers post-fin de siecle evidence of the form up to the 1960s; and offers reasons for its critical marginalization. Intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and journalists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dan Russek
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1552387836

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Textual Exposures by Dan Russek Pdf

Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary criticism, it also aims to show how texts critically reflect upon the media environment in which they were created. The writings analyzed enter a dialogic relation with visual technologies such as the x-ray, cinema, illustrated journalism, and television. The study examines how these technologies, historically and aesthetically linked to the photographic medium, inform the works of some of the most important writers in Latin America. Methodologically, the close readings of the texts centre on the figure of ekphrasis (defined as the verbal representation of a visual representation). The book is concerned with the thematic, symbolic, structural and cultural imprints photography leaves in narrative texts. The author relies on an immanent approach, reading the selected texts according to their own specificities and making the relevant thematic and structural connections between them drawing from a variety of sources in the fields of literary criticism and theory and history of photography.

Author : Pablo Calvi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986713

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Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism by Pablo Calvi Pdf

The Parrot and the Cannon is a study of the inception and development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Narrative journalism has played a central role in the formation of national identities of the various countries and in the supra-national idea of Latin America as a consolidated region. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America’s literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.

Author : Luís Trindade
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785331046

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Narratives in Motion by Luís Trindade Pdf

Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe’s encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of the era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes, from political upheavals to lurid crimes of passion. In the process, Luís Trindade illuminates the twofold nature of that journalism—both historical account and material object, it epitomized a distinctly modern entanglement of narrative and event.

Author : Iona Italia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134288366

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The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century by Iona Italia Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by both well-known and obscure writers. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.

Author : John S. Bak,Bill Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Journalism and literature
ISBN : 1558498761

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Literary Journalism Across the Globe by John S. Bak,Bill Reynolds Pdf

Essays that place literary journalism in an international context

Author : Norman Sims,Ted Conover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810123142

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True Stories by Norman Sims,Ted Conover Pdf

Author : Jan Whitt
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761840931

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Settling the Borderland by Jan Whitt Pdf

Settling the Borderland deals with the intimate connection between journalism and literature, both fields in which work by women has been underrepresented. This book has a twin focus: the work of journalists who became some of the greatest novelists, poets, and short-story writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America, several of whom are men, and contemporary journalists who best exemplify the effective use of literary techniques in news coverage. Although five women are emphasized here (Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Sara Davidson, and Susan Orlean), three men whose work was profoundly influenced by journalism also are included. Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and John Steinbeck are well known as writers of poetry, short stories, and novels, but they, too, are among the 'other voices' rarely included in studies of literary journalism. In Settling the Borderland, Jan Whitt presents a thorough analysis of the increasingly indistinct lines between truth and fiction and between fact and creative narrative in contemporary media.

Author : William E. Dow,Roberta S. Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315525990

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The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism by William E. Dow,Roberta S. Maguire Pdf

Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American literary journalism. From the work of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker, literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. It brings together cutting-edge research from literary journalism scholars, examining historical perspectives; themes, venues, and genres across time; theoretical approaches and disciplinary intersections; and new directions for scholarly inquiry. Provoking reconsideration and inquiry, while providing new historical interpretations, this companion recognizes, interacts with, and honors the tradition and legacies of American literary journalism scholarship. Engaging the work of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, African American studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, and American studies, in addition to journalism and literary studies, this book is perfect for students and scholars of those disciplines.

Author : Norman Sims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040016706

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The Literary Journalists by Norman Sims Pdf

The Art of Fact The Tools of the Reporter The Craft of the Novelist The literary journalists are marvelous observers whose meticulous attention to detail is wedded to the tools and techniques of the fiction writer. Like reporters, they are fact gatherers whose material is the real world. Like fiction writers, they are consummate storytellers who endow their stories with a narrative structure and a distinctive voice. Literary journalists range from such bestselling authors as Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Sara Davidson, to new writers like Mark Kramer and Richard West. What they share is a complete immersion in their subjects. A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF GREAT WRITING Interviews with literary journalists conducted especially for this book make this not only a superb collection to read and enjoy but the definitive work on some of the most exciting, influential, and critically acclaimed writing of our time.

Author : Anish Dave
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781648896897

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Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean by Anish Dave Pdf

Vincent Sheean, a groundbreaking American foreign correspondent and author, is known for reporting from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, writing news reports, articles, and books. A few books and articles have described Vincent Sheean’s life, and briefly discussed his major nonfiction books. However, no book-length study or article has closely examined his nonfiction books. 'Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean', textually analyzes his five nonfiction, journalistic books to examine them for characteristics of literary journalism. Spanning nearly the entirety of his journalistic career, these books include 'Personal History' (1935), 'Not Peace but a Sword' (1939), 'Between the Thunder and the Sun' (1943), 'Lead, Kindly Light' (1949), and 'Nehru: The Years of Power' (1960). Set in different world areas, the books illuminate events as disparate as the Riffian war, the Spanish Civil War, the infamous Munich pact, the Nazi bombing of London, and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Sheean’s books provide an in-depth, personal look at these and related events. This book includes analysis of Sheean’s works, finding that they have several prominent characteristics of literary journalism: stories and scenes, cohesive structure, lifelike characters, vivid description, well-crafted sentences, immersive reporting, among others.

Author : John S. Bak,Bill Reynolds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000799224

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The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism by John S. Bak,Bill Reynolds Pdf

This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism’s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time. The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism demonstrates the genre’s rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crónica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literário, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarischer Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction. Contributions from a diverse range of established and emerging scholars explore key issues such as the current role of literary journalism in countries radically affected by the print media crisis and the potential future of literary journalism, both as a centerpiece to print media writ large and as an academic discipline universally recognized around the world. The book also discusses literary journalism's responses to war, immigration, and censorship; its many female and Indigenous authors; and its digital footprints on the internet. This extensive and authoritative collection is a vital resource for academics and researchers in literary journalism studies, as well as in journalism studies and literature in general. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.