Style as argument
Subtitle: contemporary American nonfiction
By: Chris Anderson.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism.; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Nonfiction novel -- History and criticism.; English language -- United States -- Style.
Description: "Taking the position that style has value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story that a nonfiction writer has to tell, [Chris] Anderson anaylzes the work of America's foremost practioners of New Journalism -- Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion."--Jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [181]-186.
Includes index.