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"Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. Written by one of the foremost authorities on language and the media today, this book suggests that this view is unfair, and that journalists are in fact skilled 'word-weavers' whose output is cleverly worked into planned patterns. Drawing on a range of authentic news articles, it traces the development of journalism from its origins to the present day. Aitchison shows how contemporary...
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"This compelling, often surprising book demonstrates the ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales that have chastened, challenged, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time. Wending his way through the archives of the influential New York Times, award-winning professor and former journalist Jack Lule identifies enduring archetypes that lie beneath the fresh facade of reporting on current events. In doing so, he sheds...
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"The relationship between literature and journalism is an important element in the literary history of all Spanish America. The very first Spanish American novelist, the Mexican Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi, was a journalist, and virtually all Spanish American writers, from Sarmiento though Marti, to Borges and Garcia Marquez, have, at one time or another, been involved in journalism. This book explores the impact of journalism and journalistic...
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"Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American realism in the arts, which attempted to portray everyday life accurately, especially in fiction. In photographs and artists' sketches as well as news articles and features, journalists exposed the stories and conditions that became the material for American realism, and they were also its early and vocal advocates. This...
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Fishkin examines the lives and careers of Twain, Whitman, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos, to explore how journalism helped to give a distinctive cast to American literature. She combines an insightful reading of these writers' newspaper and magazine work with a critical look at the changing conventions of American journalism they encountered, and shows how each writer transformed fact into art. Fishkin weaves together threads...
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"The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters such as Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters such as Henrietta Stackpole, the lady correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. It chronicles the exploits of a neglected group of American women writers and uncovers an alternative reporter-novelist...
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