Pensamiento - Literatura

I. Introduction

§1. The Right Stuff (hereafter, TRS) is considered an example of what would become the genre of literary journalism. The need to use literary devices on the part of journalists was a logical development during the 20th century. The Western world was undergoing dramatic changes in society and the presentation of factual information seemed insufficient to grasp the meaning of events. "Whereas routing journalism focuses on the object of perception, 'the fact,' New Journalism describes the 'world view' which constitutes the facts. The reports focus not only on the signs and symbols which reveal reality but also on the communication codes which organize those signs and symbols" (Eason, qtd. in Kallan).

§2. TRS combines journalistic material-official documents government agencies were happy to make public, interviews to people taking part in the events including their thoughts and feelings, information coming from the media on those events-with the use of literary devices such as story-telling narrative and scene-to-scene reconstruction, point of view, dialogue and use of realitistic status detail. Factual information and literary devices are used to build credibility and engage readers in the story.

[W]hereas the mission of conventional journalism was primarily to inform and allow for informed judgment by dispensing a specific range of facts, Wolfe was more interested in establishing the "larger," interpretive truth. Traditional journalism's limited conception of the "facts," he believed, often effected an inaccurate, incomplete story that precluded readers from exercising informed judgment (Kallan).

 

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