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Discovering Journalism » Read Now
by Warren G. Bovaee. 226 pgs.

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Journalism is the branch of mass communications that provides large numbers of people with the knowledge they need to help them make good decisions about issues currently affecting their personal and public lives. Journalism not only provides news but also presents interpretation, evaluation, and...
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Journalism is the branch of mass communications that provides large numbers of people with the knowledge they need to help them make good decisions about issues currently affecting their personal and public lives. Journalism not only provides news but also presents interpretation, evaluation, and persuasion. Any discussion about journalism requires a common understanding of basic terms and concepts. By defining what journalism is, this book provides the answers to many questions and debates about the current state of the mass media: What is news? Is journalism concerned with more than news? What are the purposes of editorials? Is it good or bad to combine journalism and fiction? Is it possible to report the news objectively? How are public relations and advertising related to journalism? This coherent, general theory explores the function and roles of journalism vital to our personal and public well-being and offers valuable insight in areas affected by journalism such as politics, education, andthe law.
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Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet (Chap. 7 "'Crimes of Criticism': Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism" and Chap. 12 "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism") » Read Now
by Bridget Bennett, Jeremy Treglown. 294 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the Internet on poetry publishing and reviewing, Grub...
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Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the Internet on poetry publishing and reviewing, Grub Street and the Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and institutional contexts of writing about writing, with an emphasis on the vexed but at best mutually beneficial relationship between journalism and literary scholarship. Topics include the traffic between universities and the wider literary world in the `long' nineteenth century; the role of Blackwood's Magazine in the First World War; Virginia Woolf's work as a literary journalist; the early days of the London Review of Books; and the contested terrain of book reviewing in contemporary Ireland. Most of the contributors are scholars who also command a non-academic readership, as reviewers and otherwise: among them Valentine Cunningham, Hermione Lee, Karl Miller, Lorna Sage, and John Sutherland.
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The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 » Read Now
by Paula McDowell. 347 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The period 1678-1730 was a decisive one not only in Western political history but also in the history of the British press. Changing conditions for political expression and an expanding book trade enabled unprecedented opportunities for political activity. The Women of Grub Street argues that women...
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The period 1678-1730 was a decisive one not only in Western political history but also in the history of the British press. Changing conditions for political expression and an expanding book trade enabled unprecedented opportunities for political activity. The Women of Grub Street argues that women already at work in the London book trade were among the first to seize those new opportunities for public political expression. Synthesizing areas of scholarly inquiry previously regarded as separate, and offering a new model for the study of the literary marketplace, The Women of Grub Street examines not only women writers, but also printers, booksellers, ballad-singers, hawkers, and other producers and distributors of printed texts. Original both in its sources and in the claims it makes for the nature, extent, and complexities of women's participation in print culture and public politics, it provides a wealth of new information about middling and lower-class women's political and literary lives, and shows that these women were not merely the passive distributors of other people's political ideas. The central argument of the book is that women of the widest possible variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and religio-political allegiances in fact played so prominent a role in the production and transmission of political ideas through print as to belie simultaneous powerful claims that women had no place in public life. R The first full-length study to suggest the degree of involvement of women in the entire process of print creation at this important moment, The Women of Grub Street supports a number of important revisionary arguments with a broad range of literary and archival evidence. It will be of interest to readers of literature, social and publishing history, women's studies and feminism, and the history of democracy and public discourse.
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Writing Literary Features (Chap. One "Literary Techniques") » Read Now
by R. Thomas Berner. 109 pgs.

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...Feature writing. 2. Style, Literary. 3. Journalism -- Authorship. I. Title...appears in this book. THE LITERARY FEATURE AND JOURNALISM Journalists use literary...defeat of...
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Authors (Chap. XV "Literary Journalism") » Read Now
by Karl Miller. 218 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book is a defense of authorship--authorship whose public works proceed from and incorporate private lives. Examining the question of the presence of authors in their writings, and of certain authors in the writings of others, Miller focuses on the memorial writings of Louisa Stuart (1757-1851)...
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This book is a defense of authorship--authorship whose public works proceed from and incorporate private lives. Examining the question of the presence of authors in their writings, and of certain authors in the writings of others, Miller focuses on the memorial writings of Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) and Primo Levi, and the work of a wide variety of other authors, including Cervantes, Samuel Richardson, V.S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ackroyd, Milan Kundera, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and James Kelman. Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the London Review of Books, the book also touches on the opinions and idiosyncrasy of authors; imitation, replication, and pastiche; ghosts; Hamlet and its enduring popularity; recent authorial crises and case histories; and literary journalism.
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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre » Read Now
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist
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The Beginnings of English Literary Periodicals: A Study of Periodical Literature, 1665-1715 » Read Now
by Walter James Graham. 94 pgs.

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...ONE OF THE MOST NOTABLE LITERARY JOURNALS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERARY PERIODICALS A Study of Periodical...the story of the development of...
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English Literary Periodicals » Read Now
by Walter Graham. 430 pgs.

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...English readers a better quality of literary journalism. It is now understood that they...everything in the evolution of the literary periodical in England leads...After...
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Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger » Read Now
by David K. Jackson. 122 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a sacrifice of ease and leisure in the midst of arduous avocations. As "a hardy and skilful literary pioneer" in the field of Southern journalism, he deserved all the...
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A Sweet Instruction: Franklin's Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship » Read Now
by James A. Sappenfield. 232 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Instruction Franklins Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship...history of American journalism, Franklins contribution...to his own. His literary style is...
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The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment » Read Now
by Iona Italia. 248 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by...
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Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.
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Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles (Chap. 13 "Looking Ahead to Literary Journalism") » Read Now
by Matthew Ricketson. 284 pgs.

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A systematic and user-friendly approach to journalistic feature story writing for journalism students, professionals, freelancers, and beginners is provided in this guide. Writers will learn to move beyond conventional news stories and embrace their creativity to create compelling features...
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A systematic and user-friendly approach to journalistic feature story writing for journalism students, professionals, freelancers, and beginners is provided in this guide. Writers will learn to move beyond conventional news stories and embrace their creativity to create compelling features. Generating fresh ideas, gathering factual information, sifting through raw material, choosing the best angle, and working with editors are all explored. Discussion questions and exercises reinforce the ideas presented in each chapter. Pop culture examples and recently published articles are used to make concepts memorable and easily accessible.
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Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors » Read Now
by Edd Applegate. 328 pgs.

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