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The undeclared war between journalism and fiction : journalists as genre benders in literary history
- Title
- The undeclared war between journalism and fiction : journalists as genre benders in literary history / Doug Underwood.
- Author
- Underwood, Doug
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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- Description
- 250 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "When Tom Wolfe declared that 'new' journalism had surpassed the novel as the most vital form of literature, he set off a rivalry that Norman Mailer, the novelist and 'new' journalist, labeled an 'undeclared war' between journalism and fiction. Many of the important twentieth century journalist-literary figures in the United States and the United Kingdom rejected so-called non-fictional methods as their favored way to convey social truths. Despite their own careers in jorunalism, they came to believe that the writing formulas that grew out of industrialized journalism could be an impediment to expressing an authentic view of the world. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalists-turned-novelists such as Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, who believed - as Mailer did - that fiction provided a more expansive way for the realistic writer to express the important 'truths' of life." -- Publisher website.
- Alternative Title
- Journalists as genre benders in literary history
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Journalists challenging the boundaries of journalism and fiction -- Artful falsehoods and the constraints of the journalist's life -- Hemingway as seeker of the "real thing" and the epistemology of art -- The funhouse mirror: journalists portraying journalists in their fiction -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-89
- ISBN
- 9781137353474 (alk. paper)
- 1137353473 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013012090
- OCLC
- 842208754
- Author
- Underwood, Doug, author.
- Title
- The undeclared war between journalism and fiction : journalists as genre benders in literary history / Doug Underwood.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-89