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Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative

Phyllis Frus
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      The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis Frus separates literariness from aesthetic definitions, regarding it as a way of reading a text through its style to discover how it 'makes' reality. Frus examines narratives by Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, showing that conventional understanding of the categories of fiction and non-fiction frequently determines the differences we perceive in texts. When journalists writing about historical events adopt the Hemingway-esque, understated narrative style that is commonly associated with both 'objectivity' and 'literature', it leads to an audience unable to face the historical and social conditions in which it must function. She interprets New Journalistic narratives, such as that of Truman Capote, as ways to counter the reification of modern consciousness to which both objective journalism and aestheticised fiction contribute.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Phyllis Frus EAN: 9780521443241 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 575 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1994-06-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, English, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis Frus separates literariness from aesthetic definitions, regarding it as a way of reading a text through its style to discover how it 'makes' reality. Frus examines narratives by Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, showing that conventional understanding of the categories of fiction and non-fiction frequently determines the differences we perceive in texts. When journalists writing about historical events adopt the Hemingway-esque, understated narrative style that is commonly associated with both 'objectivity' and 'literature', it leads to an audience unable to face the historical and social conditions in which it must function. She interprets New Journalistic narratives, such as that of Truman Capote, as ways to counter the reification of modern consciousness to which both objective journalism and aestheticised fiction contribute.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Phyllis Frus EAN: 9780521443241 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 575 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1994-06-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, English, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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