Sunday, March 23, 2014

Literary Journalism

"Literary journalism is not fiction--the people are real and the events occurred--nor is it journalism in a traditional sense. There is interpretation, a personal point of view, and (often) experimentation with structure and chronology. Another essential element of literary journalism is its focus. Rather than emphasizing institutions, literary journalism explores the lives of those who are affected by those institutions."
(Jan Whitt, Women in American Journalism: A New History. University of Illinois Press, 2008)


We are going to begin reading a piece of serialized literary journalism based around a series of crimes that happened in Los Angeles during February of 2013. 

The first installment is called "Murder in Irvine."

Please leave a comment/reaction on the blog itself.  Use your first name and last initial only.

http://graphics.latimes.com/christopher-dorner-manhunt/#chapter-one

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives

Using your copy of The Story and Its Writer you will be completing a worksheet printed in class.

It can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GslJmtzGjVf5xzhgHJAPO-BJR2U_j3sKSeHdbpNgN3s/edit

Using pages 1779 - 1784  in the text, define each of the critical perspectives on the worksheet grid.