By trying to leave no traces of the author's presence in the text, the rules of traditional American journalism seem to decree a sort of "lawful killing". From this perspective, the rule of the 5 Ws may be compared to the M'Naughten test, which established that defendants could reply only with a "yes" or "no" to the questions of the court. Although the new journalism did not stress the necessity of the reporter's militant involvement (as in the muckraking tradition), they pursued an aesthetic of saturation which only could render justice to the intricacy and multi-facetedness of contemporary experience and criminal behaviour. Using a term belonging to the law, here "parole" becomes a discourse about and around criminals which, unlike traditional journalism, makes them live in the very complexity of style.
Crime sublime: literary mercy and the Law in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, 2008.
Autori: | LOGALDO, MARA |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2008 |
Titolo: | Crime sublime: literary mercy and the Law in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood |
Luogo di pubblicazione: | Heidelberg |
Nazione editore: | Germany |
Editore: | Universitätsverlag Winter |
Titolo del libro: | Practising equity, addressing law : equity in law and literature |
Tutti i curatori: | Carpi, Daniela |
ISBN: | 978-3-8253-5561-6 |
Serie: | |
Volume: | 391 |
Pagina iniziale: | 355 |
Pagina finale: | 365 |
Numero di pagine: | 11 |
Revisione (peer review): | comitato scientifico |
Rilevanza: | internazionale |
Lingua: | English |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore L-LIN/12 - Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Inglese |
Keywords: | Regole della scrittura giornalistica; New Journalism; saturation reporting; mito; test M'Naughten; giurisdizione del Kansas |
Keywords: | Rules of journalistic writing; New Journalism; saturation reporting; myth; M'Naughten test; Kansas criminal law |
Abstract: | By trying to leave no traces of the author's presence in the text, the rules of traditional American journalism seem to decree a sort of "lawful killing". From this perspective, the rule of the 5 Ws may be compared to the M'Naughten test, which established that defendants could reply only with a "yes" or "no" to the questions of the court. Although the new journalism did not stress the necessity of the reporter's militant involvement (as in the muckraking tradition), they pursued an aesthetic of saturation which only could render justice to the intricacy and multi-facetedness of contemporary experience and criminal behaviour. Using a term belonging to the law, here "parole" becomes a discourse about and around criminals which, unlike traditional journalism, makes them live in the very complexity of style. |
Numero degli autori: | 1 |
Supporto: | A stampa |
???metadata.dc.apeiron.stain???: | Practising Equity, Addressing Law. Equity in Law and Literature, ed. by Daniela Carpi, Heidelberg, Winter 2008, pp. 355-66 |
???metadata.dc.apeiron.id???: | 172223 |
???metadata.dc.apeiron.cura???: | Mara Logaldo |
???metadata.dc.apeiron.autori???: | Mara Logaldo |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.01 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |