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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463864803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-61376-032-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.9
• Soggetti: Reportage literature - History and criticism; Journalism and literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 1930's 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.