The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction - Rilegato

Lounsberry, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0313268932 ISBN 13: 9780313268939

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 1990

Riassunto

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. This book examines literary nonfiction in the broad context of the prose narrative form and discusses the role it plays in the American literary tradition. Drawing from personal interviews with Gay Talese and John McPhee and including new interpretations of the works of Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, The Art of Fact is a timely call for critical appreciation of the artistry of nonfiction and offers valuable insights to both students and fans of contemporary nonfiction.

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L'autore:

BARBARA LOUNSBERRY is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and a member of the Iowa Humanities Board. She is currently co-editing with Gay Talese an anthology of literary nonfiction for Harper & Row, as well as her own college reader titled The Writer in You: A Writing Process Reader/Rhetoric. Her essays have appeared in the Philological Quarterly, Georgia Review, Hemingway Review, Modern Drama, Black American Literature Forum, and other publications.

Product Description:

The non-fiction work of five American writers, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Gay Talese, John McPhee and Norman Mailer, is examined in an attempt to define the art of contemporary literary non-fiction. The work of each author is examined in detail and with reference to earlier literary traditions.

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• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0313268932
• ISBN 13: 9780313268939
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232