Narrative Means to Journalistic Ends

A Narratological Analysis of Selected Journalistic Reportages
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hans J. Kleinsteuber
ISBN: 978-3-531-17910-0
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berning, Nora

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Narratology: The Systematic Analysis of Narratives - The Journalistic Reportage and its Narrative Potential - State of Research: A Literature Review - Research Design: The Methodological Framework - Results of the Empirical Study - Critical Reflections on the Results

Über Autor(innen)

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.