Writing Out of the Box: Literary Journalistic Tropes in Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night 1. Introduction In the 1960s, literary journalism emerged as a new hybrid genre that combines the best practices of both fact and fiction, or journalism and literature. The emerging genre is marked by the publication of two non-fictional books written by Truman Capote and Norman Mailer; namely In Cold Blood (1965) and The Armies of the Night (1968) respectively. At the same year of its publication, Mailer’s
The Politics and Poetics of Literary Journalism 2in Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night Abstract This paper delineates how the various tropes of literary journalism envision new ways of negotiating the interstice of literature and journalism in a way that challenges the conventions of both genres. The paper limns three interrelated tropes for the new narrative genre. These tropes are the intertextual, the narcissistic, and the autobiographical. Within this framework of the three tropes, 1Mailer’s
what the writer tries to communicate to his hearers. 4.4. Narrative Criticism: It is a method of interpreting biblical narratives with the help of literary theory. This method looks at the biblical narrative not as a historical source that something lies behind the text. But, it looks at the narrative as a literary text that may be analysed in literary terms that is plot, characterization, point of view in narrative like other works of literature. Narrative criticism reads biblical narratives as
One of the most significant literary theorists of the twentieth century, Bakhtin is noted for his studies on discourse especially when it is concerned with the novel. Bakhtin expanded upon his sociohistorical focus—which he would eventually term "heteroglossia"—applying it to literature as well as linguistics. Bakhatin introduces the ideas of polyphony and dialogism in Problems of Dostoevsky 's Poetics. Dostoevsky created a new kind of novel by giving each of his characters an individual voice unmarked
masterpiece and a narrative that marries the Marxist theory with which it establishes a platform on which Bob`s influence and literary style is examined. Upon exploring on critics and the examination of the song “Hurricane” by Bob Dylan, it reveals the modern social elements of equity and race in the society. Thus, it is from the metaphor, language, literary aspects of genre as used in the song and Bob`s individualistic and unique songwriting that has raised the plateau of his excellence and made him
Mercer, 2001). Other studies investigated the effect that negative or positive attitude has on the language learning task at hand (Ghazali, 2008). Few studies, however, have investigated language learners ' attitude towards English literature and literary materials especially when those materials and texts are used alongside regular communicative texts and tasks in the EFL classroom (Ghazali,
to save Narnia. Throughout the novel, C.S. Lewis utilizes an eclectic blend of literary devices, elements and conventions, to keep the reader engaged as well as entertained. Lewis’ incorporation of compositional techniques namely, genre conventions, setting, character development, allegory, and plot to convey the theme of morality to various audiences, earning a prestigious level of literary merit for the novel. The genre classifications for the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe provide a large
write this valuable piece of literature which has been analyzed inside the didactic act in Literature. Besides, this notion of canon shows indirectly how we deal with literacy, that is, what gives a text a literary relevance. This means being able to distinguish a literary text from a non-literary text. In this case, it is a speech originally written in English language and whose content has been the object of study in elementary schools, high schools and universities of the world since it occurred
CHAPTER II Archetypal criticism The roots of archetypal criticism Archetypal criticism is a type of literary criticism that focuses on particular narrative patterns, archetypes, motifs, themes or characters that recur in a particular literary work or in literature in general. Archetypal criticism has its basis in the application of concepts developed in psychoanalysis and in mythology to the study of literature. The main tendency of this approach to criticism resembles to the early conception of
enables you to magnify your appreciation of literary selections and see the role they play in society and even grow and evolve through your literary journey. Objective At the end of the lesson, you should be able to: 1. State the meaning of literature; 2. Discuss the importance of literature; 3. Appreciate the extent of literature in all aspects of human environment;