Original title:
Beletrie jako cesta k větší pravdě v Americké nové žurnalistice
Translated title:
Fictional paths to a larger truth in american new journalism
Authors:
Chamonikolas, Kryštof ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee) Document type: Master’s theses
Year:
2006
Language:
eng Abstract:
[eng][cze] Truman Garcia Capote (1924 - 1984) and Norman Kingsley Mailer (born 1923) were renown in the 1960s as both novelists and journalists. In two of their best-known and often most valued works, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (1965) and The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel- The Novel as History (1968), they attempted to combine their novelistic and journalistic skills to a yet unprecedented degree and create what Capote himself termed a "nonfiction novel". They wrote book-long texts which 'read like novels', but were simultaneously well-researched and highly accurate journalistic reportages on real events. Originally started as magazine assignments, they both established themselves as landmarks of the 1960s American novel and as central works of the American new journalism, a literary and journalistic movement and genre attempting to blend literary writing techniques with journalistic factuality and accuracy. Despite their common aim and status as "nonfiction novels", however, In Cold Blood and The Armies of the Night represent radically different, even antithetic types of both novel and reportage. A more detailed analysis and critical assessment of their differences and their relationship to other similar works, which I will attempt in this MA thesis, should...Diplomova prace Fictional Paths to HA Larger Truth" in American New Journalism (Beletrie jako cesta k "vetS{ pravdeH v Americke nove zurnalistice) se zabyva americkou "novou zurnalistikou" (new journalism), literarnfm smerem rozvinutym predevsfm v 60. a 70. letech 20. stoletf, ktery beletristickou, narativnf formu zpracovava skutecne udalosti a usiluje pritom o maximalnf spolehlivost a presnost. Prace se teoreticky opfra 0 celou radu studif, predevsfm vsak 0 knihu Johna Hellmanna Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction (Vybajena skutecnost: Nova zumalistika jako nova beletrie) z roku 1981, ktera se nejpodrobneji zabyva vztahem mezi literarnf formou a dokumentarnfm obsahem romanovych reportaZi predevsfm od Normana Mailera, Huntera S. Thompsona a Toma Wolfa. Diplomova prace dale odkazuje na teoreticke studie z oblasti literarnf teorie a teorie vypravenf jako napr. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (PNbeh a vypraveni: narativni struktura v beletrii a filmu) od Seymoura Chatmana z roku 1978, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (do cestiny prelozeno chybne jako Rozprava 0 vypraveni: esej 0 metodej od Gerarda Genetta z roku 1972 ci A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (Poetika postmodernismu: historie, teorie, fikce) od Lindy Hutcheon z roku 1988.
Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses)
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Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository. Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/7425