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Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage.

As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers as...

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Main Author: Sigg, Pascal
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Series:Gegenwartsliteratur Series.
Subjects:
Reportage literature, American > History and criticism.
Littérature de reportage américaine > Histoire et critique.
Literary Criticism / American.
American Studies.
Digital Media.
Human.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Media.
Mediation.
Mediatization.
Reportage.
Self-Reflection.
Electronic books.
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Summary:As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers assert themselves in a postmodern way by scrutinizing their own mediation. As it also traces and develops the theorization of reportage as genre along the reporters' early concerns with technical media, this pioneering contribution to literary journalism studies paves a way for a new materialist approach in the under-researched field.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Aural Experience and the Discontents of Mediation
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 pages).
ISBN:3839473268
9783839473269