Research Catalog

Title

Literary journalism across the globe : journalistic traditions and transnational influences / edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds.

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bak, John S.
• Reynolds, Bill.
• Reynolds, William, 1956-

Description

x, 306 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Journalism and literature
• Reportage literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / John S. Bak -- Toward a Theory of International Literary Journalism -- Literary reportage: the "other" literary journalism / John C. Hartsock -- Reportage in the U.K.: A Hidden Genre? / Jenny McKay -- The Edge of Canadian Literary Journalism: The West Coast's Restless Search for Meaning versus Central Canada's Chronicles of the Rich and Powerful / Bill Reynolds -- The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary Literary Journalism in a Shrinking World / David Abrahamson -- The Evolutionary Future of American and International Literary Journalism / Norman Sims -- Journalistic Traditions. Dutch Literary Journalism: From Pamphlet to Newspaper (ca. 1600/1900) / Clazina Dingemanse and Rutger de Graaf -- Literary Journalism's Magnetic Pull: Britain's "New" Journalism and the Portuguese at the Fin-de-Siecle / Isabel Soares -- Literary Journalism in Spain: Past, Present (and Future?) / Sonia Parratt -- Social Movements and Chinese Literary Reportage / Peiqin Chen -- Hundred and Twelve Years of Nonfiction Solitude: a Survey of Brazilian Literary Journalism / Edvaldo Pereira Lima -- Literary Journalism in Twentieth-Century Finland / Maria Lassila-Merisalo -- Transnational Influences. Riding the Rails with Robin Hyde: Literary Journalism in 1930s New Zealand / Nikki Hessell -- James Agee's "Continual Awareness," Untold Stories: "Saratoga Springs" and "Havana Cruise" / William Dow -- Željko Kozinc, the Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalism in Slovenia / Sonja Merljak Zdovc -- Creditable or Reprehensible? The Literary Journalism of Helen Garner / Willa McDonald -- Ryszard Kapuściński and the Borders of Documentarism: Toward Exposure without Assumption / Soenke Zehle.

ISBN

• 9781558498778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 155849877X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781558498761 (library cloth : alk. paper)
• 1558498761 (library cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011006673

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library