- Dramatic scenes = Scene by scene construction. Rather than rely on second-hand accounts and background information, Wolfe considers it necessary for the journalist to witness events first hand, and to recreate them for the reader.
- Specificity of Concrete Detail – which is essential to establishing scenes.
- g. 38 – Voice of the narrator Dialogue. By recording dialogue as fully as possible, the journalist is not only reporting words, but defining and establishing character, as well as involving the reader.
- The third person. Instead of simply reporting the facts, the journalist has to give the reader a real feeling of the events and people involved. One technique for achieving this is to treat the protagonists like characters in a novel. What is their motivation? What are they thinking? Gestures / facial expressions
- Details of environment = Status Details. Just as important as the characters and the events, are the surroundings, specifically what people surround themselves with. Wolfe describes these items as the tools for a "social autopsy", so we can see people as they see themselves
- Subjective Arrangement of Reported Information to Effect (see Capote's masterful arrangement of scenes) Quote related to this: “The artist sees not so much what is there as what he can make of it.” – Charles Horton Cooley
- The Exploration of Inner Experience = Quote related to this: “The facts for the writer of a human interest story lie in the inner experience.”
- Literary journalism is "Expressive" – Quote: “A story is said to be expressive when it outlives the moment when it is news. This means expressive of the familiar facts of human nature.”
- Careful and Precise Word Selection to literary effect.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Elements of Literary Journalism (Work in Progress)
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