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Autore |
Underwood Doug |
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Titolo |
Chronicling trauma : journalists and writers on violence and loss / / Doug Underwood |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-29294-7 |
9786613292940 |
0-252-09343-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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The history of communication |
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Soggetti |
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Violence - Press coverage |
Psychic trauma - Press coverage |
War correspondents - Mental health |
Authors, American - Psychology |
Violence in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Journalists - United States |
Journalists - Great Britain |
Journalism and literature - United States |
Journalism and literature - Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction. Trauma, news, and narrative: the study of violence and loss in journalism and fiction -- Stories of harm, stories of hazard: childhood stress and professional trauma in the careers of journalist-literary figures -- Trafficking in trauma: women's rights, civil rights, and sensationalism as a spur to social justice -- Trauma in war, trauma in life: the pose of the "heroic" battlefield correspondent -- Depression, drink, and dissipation: dysfunctional lifestyles and art as the ultimate stimulant -- Epilogue. New challenges, new treatments: trauma and the contemporary journalist-literary figure. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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To attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma - crime, violence, warfare - as well as psychological profiling of |
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deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters and by borrowing from their own traumatic life stories to shape the themes and psychological terrain of their fiction. In this work, Doug Underwood offers a conceptual and historical framework for comprehending the impact of trauma and violence in the careers and the writings of important journalist-literary figures in the United States and British Isles from the early 1700's to today. |
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