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Proponents and practitioners of narrative literary journalism have sought to assert its distinctiveness as both a literary form and a type of journalism. In Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience, John C. Hartsock argues that this often neglected kind of journalism -- exemplified by such renowned works as John Hersey's Hiroshima, James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem -- has emerged as an important genre of its own, not just a hybrid of the techniques of fiction and the conventions of traditional journalism.Hartsock situates narrative literary journalism within the broader histories of the American tradition of'objective'journalism and the standard novel. While all embrace the value of narrative, or storytelling, literary journalism offers a particular'aesthetics of experience'lacking in both the others. Not only does literary journalism disrupt the myths sustained by conventional journalism and the novel, but its rich details and attention to everyday life question readers'cultural assumptions. Drawing on the critical theories of Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Benjamin, and others, Hartsock argues that the aesthetics of experien
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- Author
- Hartsock, John C.
- Publisher
- The University of Tennessee Press;University of Massachusetts Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781625341730
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, History, Science
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