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Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends

A Narratological Analysis of Selected Journalistic Reportages

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  1. Nora Berning
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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Introduction

    • Nora Berning
    Pages 15-19

  3. Theoretical Framework

    • Nora Berning
    Pages 21-57

  4. Empirical Analysis

    • Nora Berning
    Pages 59-101

  5. Discussion and Outlook

    • Nora Berning
    Pages 103-119

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 121-158
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About this book

Nora Berning grasps the narrative potential of journalistic reportages via a set of narratological categories. Spurred by an interdisciplinary framework, she builds on transgeneric narratological research and shows that journalistic reportages can be described, analyzed, and charted with categories that originate in structuralist narratology. The author spells out minimal criteria for particular types of reportages, and challenges the argument that journalism and literature have distinct, non-overlapping communicative goals. By showing that the reportage is a hybrid text type that seeks to inform, educate, and entertain, this study advances a re-conceptualization of journalism and literature as two fields with permeable borders.

The book is written for researchers and students in the fields of journalism, media, communications, and literary theory.

About the author

Nora Berning is a researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where she has specialized in the field of media cultures, with a special emphasis on narrativity in journalism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends

  • Book Subtitle: A Narratological Analysis of Selected Journalistic Reportages

  • Authors: Nora Berning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92699-5

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17910-0Published: 12 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-92699-5Published: 01 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Journalism, Communication Studies

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