Literary journalism across the globe
Subtitle: journalistic traditions and transnational influences
By: edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781558498778; 9781558498761
Subjects: Reportage literature; History and criticism; Journalism and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John S. Bak; title: Toward a Theory of International Literary Journalism; title: Literary reportage: the "other" literary journalism / John C. Hartsock; title: Reportage in the U.K.: A Hidden Genre? / Jenny McKay; title: 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; title: The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary Literary Journalism in a Shrinking World / David Abrahamson; title: The Evolutionary Future of American and International Literary Journalism / Norman Sims; title: Journalistic Traditions. Dutch Literary Journalism: From Pamphlet to Newspaper (ca. 1600/1900) / Clazina Dingemanse and Rutger de Graaf; title: Literary Journalism's Magnetic Pull: Britain's "New" Journalism and the Portuguese at the Fin-de-Siecle / Isabel Soares; title: Literary Journalism in Spain: Past, Present (and Future?)  / Sonia Parratt; title: Social Movements and Chinese Literary Reportage / Peiqin Chen; title: Hundred and Twelve Years of Nonfiction Solitude: a Survey of Brazilian Literary Journalism / Edvaldo Pereira Lima; title: Literary Journalism in Twentieth-Century Finland / Maria Lassila-Merisalo; title: Transnational Influences. Riding the Rails with Robin Hyde: Literary Journalism in 1930s New Zealand / Nikki Hessell; title: James Agee's "Continual Awareness," Untold Stories: "Saratoga Springs" and "Havana Cruise" / William Dow; title: Željko Kozinc, the Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalism in Slovenia / Sonja Merljak Zdovc; title: Creditable or Reprehensible? The Literary Journalism of Helen Garner / Willa McDonald; title: Ryszard Kapuściński and the Borders of Documentarism: Toward Exposure without Assumption / Soenke Zehle.