The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative (Hardcover)

Preface: True stories; Acknowledgements; Introduction: What Isn't Literature; 1. Writing after the fact: Crane, journalism and fiction; 2. 'News that stays': Hemingway, journalism and objectivity in fiction; 3. News that fits: The construction of journalistic objectivity; 4. Other American New Journalisms: 1960s New Journalism as 'other'; 5. The 'incredibility of reality' and the ideology of form; 6. Freud and our 'Wolfe Man': The Right Stuff and the concept of belatedness; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Index.