Tom Wolfe as a Critic: the Literary Background of New Journalism

Student: Urdenko Elizaveta

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

New Journalism is a phenomenon, that broadly spread in 1960s in America and effected future literature and journalistic tradition and combined elements of traditional journalism with elements of fiction. Tom Wolfe is considered the ideologist of New Journalism. He described the state of modern literature and principles of New Journalism in The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe. With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson (1973); in this text he criticized the traditional journalism and the novel. The present research provides academic reflection on the Anthology: Firstly, it organizes Wolfe’s views. Secondly, the paper demonstrates what position New Journalism took in American literature after the Second World War according to literary, culturological and interdisciplinary studies.

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