The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless

Frus, Phyllis

ISBN 10: 0521443245 / ISBN 13: 9780521443241

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521443245
• ISBN 13: 9780521443241
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Early in the twentieth century, journalism and fiction suffered a forced separation as a result of two coinciding trends: a popular tendency to treat literature as an elevated, aesthetic category and the emergence of objective narrative in journalism. The effect of these two forces was to distance the subject of the narrative from its object, an estrangement later challenged by the writing of New Journalists and nonfiction novelists. In her book Frus recovers and renegotiates the process of writerly creation, and proves that, ultimately, the observer is implicated in the means of observation.

Book Description

The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially constructed rather than natural. Phyllis Frus separates literariness from aesthetic definitions, regarding it as a way of reading a text through its style to discover how it 'makes' reality.