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Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends: A Narratological Analysis of Selected Journalistic Reportages
Nora Berning
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Description for Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends: A Narratological Analysis of Selected Journalistic Reportages
Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 222.
Nora Berning grasps the narrative potential of journalistic reportages via a set of narratological categories. Spurred by an interdisciplinary framework, she builds on transgeneric narratological research and shows that journalistic reportages can be described, analyzed, and charted with categories that originate in structuralist narratology. The author spells out minimal criteria for particular types of reportages, and challenges the argument that journalism and literature have distinct, non-overlapping communicative goals. By showing that the reportage is a hybrid text type that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain, this study advances a re-conceptualization of journalism and literature as two fields with permeable borders. ... Read more
Nora Berning grasps the narrative potential of journalistic reportages via a set of narratological categories. Spurred by an interdisciplinary framework, she builds on transgeneric narratological research and shows that journalistic reportages can be described, analyzed, and charted with categories that originate in structuralist narratology. The author spells out minimal criteria for particular types of reportages, and challenges the argument that journalism and literature have distinct, non-overlapping communicative goals. By showing that the reportage is a hybrid text type that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain, this study advances a re-conceptualization of journalism and literature as two fields with permeable borders. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Weisbaden, Germany
ISBN
9783531179100
SKU
V9783531179100
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99-15
About Nora Berning
Nora Berning is a researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where she has specialized in the field of media cultures, with a special emphasis on narrativity in journalism.
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