Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination, Volume 2 (Mass Communication and Journalism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433124696 ISBN 13: 9781433124693

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically.
Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom, the United States and India – but also in countries not covered in the first volume such as Australia, France, Brazil and Portugal, while its central themes help lead the study of literary journalism into previously unchartered territory. More focus is placed on the origins of literary journalism, with chapters exploring the previously ignored journalism of writers such as Myles na gCopaleen, Marguerite Duras, Mohatma Gandhi, Leigh Hunt, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy and Evelyn Waugh.
Critical overviews of African American literary journalism in the 1950s and of literary journalism in Brazil from 1870 to the present day are also provided, and a section asks whether there is a specific women’s voice in literary journalism.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Lance Keeble is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is the winner of the 2011 National Teaching Fellowship – the highest award for teachers in higher education in the United Kingdom. He is the author and editor of 27 books including The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler) and is the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
John Tulloch, who died in October 2013, was Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln from 2004–2012. He wrote on a wide range of topics including literary journalism, media ethics, peace and human rights reporting, the coverage of the ‘war on terror,’ and journalism history. From 1995–2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster.

Review

«This text uses literary journalism as a prism through which to critique journalism past and present, bringing journalism face to face with important critical debates facing not only societies in general but aspiring journalists. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to all journalists, consumers of journalism and anybody concerned with the potential of this most varied of cultural products» (Martin Conboy, Professor of Journalism History, Sheffield University)

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1433124696
• ISBN 13: 9781433124693
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Keeble Richard Lance, Tulloch John