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The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion : Creating New Reporting Styles.

By: Publication details: Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)ISBN:
  • 0773421572
  • 9780773421578
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • PS366.R44 .M86 2012
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.