Style and the new journalism
A rhetorical analysis of Tom Wolfe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12011024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Kallan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, corresponding author), Richard A Kallan (University of Nevada, Reno) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-62 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Monographs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03637757909375990 |
| OpenAlex | W2010235199 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This study analyzes the rhetorical appeal of Tom Wolfe. It argues that Wolfe's essays represent a non‐linear, oral‐sounding rhetoric that stylistically emulates television. The result is an exciting, immediate, but still credible “televisionic” journalism. Wolfe secures this unique rhetorical form through his use of the four stylistic devices associated with New Journalism—third‐person point of view, scene‐by‐scene construction, extensive dialogue, and recording of status‐life symbols—and through his particular employment of punctuation and typography, language and syntax, and organization. All contribute to the realism of Wolfe's prose—a realism sustained by a linguistic style that rejects many of the time‐honored rules and constraints of conventional journalism. Wolfe's work is part of a reportorial revolution which seeks to transform journalism from a craft to an art, thus allowing the writer to compete rhetorically with such popular mass audience persuaders as television
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Journalism · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Punctuation · Realism · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |