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The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction - Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History (Hardcover, New)
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The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction - Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History (Hardcover, New)
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When Tom Wolfe declared that 'new' journalism had surpassed the
novel as the most vital form of literature, he set off a rivalry
that Norman Mailer, the novelist and 'new' journalist, labeled an
'undeclared war' between journalism and fiction. Many of the
important twentieth century journalist-literary figures in the
United States and the United Kingdom rejected so-called
non-fictional methods as their favored way to convey social truths.
Despite their own careers in jorunalism, they came to believe that
the writing formulas that grew out of industrialized journalism
could be an impediment to expressing an authentic view of the
world. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is
now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary, ' and
whether it should rank with the great novels by such
journalists-turned-novelists such as Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and
Ernest Hemingway, who believed - as Mailer did - that fiction
provided a more expansive way for the realistic writer to express
the important 'truths' of life.
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