The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion : Creating New Reporting Styles.
Publication details: Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)ISBN:- 0773421572
- 9780773421578
- Herr, Michael - Criticism and interpretation
- Mailer, Norman - Criticism and interpretation
- Thompson, Hunter S. - Criticism and interpretation
- Didion, Joan - Criticism and interpretation
- Didion, Joan
- Herr, Michael
- Mailer, Norman
- Thompson, Hunter S
- 1900-1999
- Reportage literature, American - History and criticism
- American prose literature - History and criticism - 20th century
- Journalism - United States - History - 20th century
- Litt�erature de reportage am�ericaine - Histoire et critique
- Prose am�ericaine - Histoire et critique - 20e si�ecle
- LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General
- American prose literature
- Journalism
- Reportage literature, American
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- American Literature
- United States
- PS366.R44 .M86 2012
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Article Abstract: Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment and objectivity, these New Journalists employed their subjective, literary styles to construct their narrative personae and to dramatize not only the events like the Vietnam War and the 1972 presidential campaign but their direct participation in t.