The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History

Underwood, D.

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 journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-10-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137353474

DOI: 10.1057/9781137353481

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 250