The Journalistic Imagination Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter 1st Edition by Richard Keeble, Sharon Wheeler 9780415417235 0415417236
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ISBN 10: 0415417236
ISBN 13: 9780415417235
Author: Richard Keeble, Sharon Wheeler
Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre.
Key features include:
- an international focus taking in writers from the UK, the USA and France
- essays featuring a range of extremely popular writers (such as Dickens, Orwell, Angela Carter, Truman Capote) and approaches them from distinctly original angles.
Each chapter begins with a concise biography to help contextualise the the journalist in question and includes references and suggested further reading for students. Any student or teacher of journalism or media studies will want to add this book to their reading list.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Defoe’s The Storm as a Model for Contemporary Reporting
Chapter 2: William Hazlitt: Poetry, Drama, and Literary Journalism
Chapter 3: The Personal is the Political: George Sand’s Contribution to Popular Journalism
Chapter 4: Charles Dickens and the Voices of Journalism
Chapter 5: “A Work and a Purpose”: Willa Cather’s Journalism
Chapter 6: “The Dangerous Third Martini”: Graham Greene, Libel and Literary Journalism in 1930s Britain
Chapter 7: The Lasting in the Ephemeral: Assessing George Orwell’s As I Please Columns
Chapter 8: An Unscathed Tourist of Wars: The Journalism of Martha Gellhorn
Chapter 9: Cold-Blooded Journalism: Truman Capote and the Non-Fiction Novel
Chapter 10: The Journalist as Philosopher and Cultural Critic: The Case of Angela Carter
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