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Literary journalism in the twentieth century / edited by Norman Sims.

Contributor(s): Sims, Norman.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990Description: xii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0195059646; 0195059654 .Subject(s): American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism | Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 818.50809
Contents:
Part I -- A third way to tell the story: American Literary Journalism at the turn of the century / Thomas B. Connery -- Hemingway's Permanent Records / Ronald Weber -- The mother of literature: Journalism and The Grapes of Wrath / William Howarth -- Joseph Mitchell and The New Yorker Nonfiction Writers / Norman Sims -- The politics of the New Journalism / John J. Pauly -- Part II -- The Borderlands of Culture: Writing by W. E. B. Du Bois, James Agee, Tillie Olsen and Gloria Anzaldua / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- The politics of the plain style / Hugh Kenner -- The new journalism and the image-world / David Eason -- John McPhee Balances the Act / Kathy Smith -- Part III -- Artists in Uniform / Mary McCarthy -- Settling the Colonel's Hash / Mary McCarthy -- Unsettling the Colonel's Hash: "Fact" in Autobiography / Darrel Mansell.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 818.50809 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00018320
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book offers a forum for discussion, involving the reader in what becomes an active definition of literary journalism...Lively and readable, it also concerns the very essence of literature itself, showing how writers have reshaped styles to permit passages across the borders between fact and fiction, in the process investigating what these borders might be, and if they exist at all.

Bibliography: (pages 281-293).

Part I -- A third way to tell the story: American Literary Journalism at the turn of the century / Thomas B. Connery -- Hemingway's Permanent Records / Ronald Weber -- The mother of literature: Journalism and The Grapes of Wrath / William Howarth -- Joseph Mitchell and The New Yorker Nonfiction Writers / Norman Sims -- The politics of the New Journalism / John J. Pauly -- Part II -- The Borderlands of Culture: Writing by W. E. B. Du Bois, James Agee, Tillie Olsen and Gloria Anzaldua / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- The politics of the plain style / Hugh Kenner -- The new journalism and the image-world / David Eason -- John McPhee Balances the Act / Kathy Smith -- Part III -- Artists in Uniform / Mary McCarthy -- Settling the Colonel's Hash / Mary McCarthy -- Unsettling the Colonel's Hash: "Fact" in Autobiography / Darrel Mansell.