The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of NonfictionBloomsbury Academic, 9. 4. 1990 - Počet stran: 232 The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost three times as many reviews of nonfiction as fiction, critical appreciation of this work has lagged behind. The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. By discussing contemporary literary nonfiction in relation to the early prose narrative forms and to the news/novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the opening chapter defines the discourse known as literary or artistic nonfiction. Dr. Lounsberry then describes four characteristics of literary nonfiction and grounds these characteristics in contemporary works. |
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... representative men and women , of templates or types , who embody or unify a field . His eye obsessively notes levels of human at- tainment as well as of the geological earth because for McPhee it is essential to have " a sense of where ...
... representative men , like Emerson's , exert spiritual as well as physical or intellectual leadership . “ The world is upheld by the veracity of good men , " wrote Emerson in Representative Men ; " they make the earth wholesome " ( 3 ) ...
... representative men and women with natural phenomena — such as mountains , rivers , and gold — thereby asserting humanity's tie to nature . His canon , furthermore , is an asser- tion that representative men and women continue to exist ...
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Tom Wolfes American Jeremiad | 37 |
John McPhees Levels of the Earth | 65 |
Joan Didions Lambent Light | 107 |
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