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A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form
During the 1960s, such works as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem were cited as examples of the "new journalism " True stories that read like novels, they combined the journalist's task of factual reporting with the art of fictional narration. Yet as John C. Hartsock shows in this revealing study, the roots of this distinctive form of writing-whether called new journalism, literary journalism, or creative nonfiction-can be traced at least as far back as the late nineteenth century. In the decades following the American Civil War, Stephen Crane, Lafcadio Hearn, and other journalists challenged the notion, then just emerging, that the reporter's job was to offer a concise statement of the "objective truth." Drawing on the techniques of the realistic novel, these writers developed a new narrative style of reporting aimed at lessening the distance between observer and observed, subject and object. By the 1890s, Hartsock argues, literary journalism had achieved critical recognition as a new form of writing, different not only from "objective" reporting but also from the sensationalistic "yellow press" and at times the socially engaged "muckrakers." In the twentieth century, the form has continued to evolve and maintain its vitality, despite being marginalized by the academic establishment. A former journalist who covered Capitol Hill for UPI and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union for the San Francisco Examiner, Hartsock brings a fresh and informed perspective to the issues he examines. The result is a concise introduction to the genesis and development of a significant literary genre. "A substantial, well-written, and well-argued book that is likely to become a standard work in literary journalism." (Norman Sims, editor of Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century).
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The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, And Other Essays (Feminist Theory and Politics Series)
For over twenty years Nancy Hartsock has been a powerful voice in the effort to forge a feminism sophisticated and strong enough to make a difference in the real world of powerful political and economic forces. This volume collects her most important writings, offering her current thinking about this period in the development of feminist political economy and presenting an important new paper, “The Feminist Standpoint Revisited.”Central themes recur throughout the volume: in particular, the relationships between theory and activism, between feminism and Marxism, and between postmodernism and politics. Readers will appreciate Hartsock’s account of how so much of her theoretical work grew directly out of the demands of the activist life. The Feminist Standpoint Revisited is an important record and a timely reevaluation of the development of feminist thought, as well as a contribution to current work. It will be a valuable resource for feminist theorists in a wide variety of disciplines. .
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Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation
Now with updated diagnostic and treatment methods, this book offers more complete and detailed coverage than any other trauma nursing text. Chapters provide detailed instruction on the best ways to respond during all phases of the cycle of trauma from prevention and resuscitation through critical care and rehabilitation. A team of expert contributors guides readers through specific injuries and their treatments. They identify and describe the nursing skills necessary to provide the best care for your clients. Updated content reflects new research-based findings, includes expanded content on pain management, and three new chapters on performance improvement in trauma care, injury prevention, and prehospital care. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly says the new 3rd edition "continues to be the comprehensive resource for trauma nursing.".
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Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century (Medill Visions of the American Press)
In 1953, Mary McCarthy published an article in Harper's entitled "Artists in Uniform" telling the story of a woman who encountered an anti-Semitic colonel on a train. Readers approached the tale as fiction, finding symbolic meaning in everything from what the Colonel ate to the clothes the woman wore. Soon after its appearance, McCarthy wrote a sequel called "Settling the Colonel's Hash" in which she explained that "there were no symbols in this story; no deeper level": it had been simply a fragment of memoir. But critics immediately took issue with McCarthy's assumption that two literary arenas exist--that there is a clear difference between autobiographical and fictional narrative--and the incident has become a classic illustration of the fascinating and nebulous borderlands that lie between fact and fiction. From the experiments of Hutchins Hapgood, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Agee, and Joe Mitchell to the challenges posed by the New Journalists and contemporary literary journalists such as John McPhee, this collection explores the fine line between fiction and nonfiction from both historical and critical perspectives. What motives led Ernest Hemingway to return to extended narrative nonfiction after becoming a successful novelist? Why did John Steinbeck write The Grapes of Wrath as a novel rather than a work of journalism? How does the "plain style" of writers like Swift, Defoe, and Orwell affect the reader's sense of what is true and what is "made up"? In what way does the Mary McCarthy episode illuminate the ways in which we approach fiction and nonfiction? Raising a wealth of intriguing questions, Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century offers a forum for discussion, involving the reader in what becomes an active definition of literary journalism. The book assembles essays by such well-known critics as Tom Connery, Ron Weber, William Howarth, Norman Sims, John Pauly, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Hugh Kenner, David Eason, Kathy Smith, and Darrel Mansell. Lively and unique, Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century concerns the very essence of literature itself, showing how writers have reshaped styles to permit passage across the borders between fact and fiction, in the process investigating what these borders might be, and if they exist at all..
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Voices of the Chincoteague: Memories of Greenbackville and Franklin City (VA)
Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, people flocked to boom towns like Greenbackville and Franklin City on Virginia’s remote Chincoteague Bay to cash in on the lucrative oyster trade. Most eventually settled for simple rural lives, living a cash and barter economy, commuting on foot or by boat, always closely tied to the tide and water. From mystery in the marsh to jealous lovers, these accounts of life on the Bay are filled with work boats, crab pots, and saltwater..
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Siege of Eden
A powerful descent into the parallel realms of human and demonic evil, giving a visionary intensity to age-old questions of free will and fate. Fast-moving and gripping, Siege of Eden is cinematic to the point of hallucinatory. Eden, a small Maine town, becomes the playing board for a final game of cat and mouse between mankind and its most ancient adversaries... Reich's Storage, a mammoth facility with a history of misfortune, mothballed shortly after construction; it's re-opening is the first bell of the coming apocalypse... Gates, an FBI veteran, hardened by a lifetime of tracking serial killers, follows the trail of a monster to Eden and to Dell Trainer, a young writer moonlighting as a manager at Reich's Storage. The two fall into a terrifying struggle with nightmarish evil in a race to find mankind's destiny or final damnation. In a kaleidoscopic tale that stretches from a Baptist church in Virginia to the halls of the Vatican, from earth to hell itself, Gates and Dell must search through the pieces of a baffling puzzle before it is too late....
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In the Name of Progress: The Liberalization of Christianity
“Christian’s writing presents a compelling case for conservative values.” —Mary Lou Weggenmann, delegate, California Republican Party Columnist Christian Hartsock is not your typical conservative. He is ready to stand up for the church and against the liberal spin machine, whose beliefs attract many to the church but leave many more wanting more than tolerance, diversity, and community. Hartsock believes Christians must stop being so comfortable and start seeking the truth. He teaches that we should prepare our children for the future by providing them with traditional wisdom, intellectual empowerment, and protection against evil. Hartsock delves into such controversial subjects as the definition of “progressive Christians”, why he feels liberalism is the religion of feelings, and the stigma of fundamentalism. As an added bonus, he includes two columns and an interview from fellow author and conservative Hans Zeiger. No matter what your current spiritual or political beliefs, Hartsock provides the light to help you find your way through confusion and darkness to the truth and wisdom of God’s word..
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