Some Literary Journalism Research Paper Ideas

  1. Plain Style vs. the Elegant Style in Literary Journalism (see, to start: http://books.google.com/books?id=jbAeAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=%22plain+style%22+elegant&source=web&ots=rQ-Vqk_Gnu&sig=32QRVN9Q01WMDPxYF5CK_7AH_9c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA200,M1
  2. (Some Literary Journalist(s) and the Power of Plain Style
  3. Redemption as narrative theme. See Malcolm X, etc.??
  4. Some Exemplars of Literary Sports Journalism
  5. Orwell’s “Marrakech” as Precursor to the Imagistic and Transitionless Style (see page 19 of Art of Fact: http://books.google.com/books?id=xxrXgg1WIPkC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Marrakech+transitionless&source=web&ots=FtMYBW7I3n&sig=QiA9toxQck1USD2BeSCVCvhGv08&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA19,M1
  6. New Media Hypertext Storytelling and the Imagistic and Transitionless Style
  7. The Techniques of Screen Plays in Literary Journalism
  8. Comparing Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson and the Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi (see link to story: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/worst_congress_ever and archive of his weekly column: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11135532/the_low_post_a_complete_archive
  9. Clay Felker and the New Journalism of New York Magazine (see: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D91131F93AA35757C0A963958260&scp=2&sq=felker&st=nyt
  10. The work of Lester Bangs, the great gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock writing.
  11. Blogs: The new literary journalism? (see this link as starting point: http://umassjournalismprofs.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/blogs-the-new-literary-journalism/
  12. What does it mean to do literary journalism in the age of interactive multimedia: (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=128384)
  13. Contemporary gonzo journalist Todd Brendan Fahey
  14. The Ethics of Going Undercover: Literary Journalism vs. Traditional Journalism
  15. Cold Blood, Capote and Credibility
  16. Robin Esrock and Modern Gonzo
  17. What is Literary Journalism: A Small Room or a Big Tent?
  18. Literary Journalism On The Web
  19. Maureen Dowd and Her Literary Journalism Style (see, to begin: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n11_v24/ai_12857975/pg_2)
  20. When Fact Becomes Fiction? Credibility and Composite Characters (see, to start: And Maureen Dowd, "A Writer for The New Yorker Says He Created Composites in Reports," New York Times, June 19, 1984, p. 1. 44; and for some bibliographical info, see: http://books.google.com/books?id=wQQ2RDMhKqMC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=%22a+writer+for+the+new+yorker+says+he+created+composites%22&source=web&ots=1UQWPILNxO&sig=RagM1mvOJFdRXdTIHLGmSVYEzLo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPP1,M1
  21. Photographer Jacob Riis and “How the Other Half Lives” as Literary Journalism (see, to start: http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html)
  22. Jacob Riis and Walker Evans: Photographers as Literary Journalists (see, to begin: http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html and http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=walker+evans&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title and http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/02/artphotogallery/photographers/walker_evans_01.html
  23. Realism in Journalism as a Response to the Age
  24. Photography as the Ultimate Journalism of Realism
  25. The Elements of New Media Storytelling
  26. Masson v. New Yorker: Literary Journalism and the Law
  27. Publishing Venues for Works of Literary Journalism
  28. Literary Journalism Around the World (or in a specific country or region)
  29. The Ethics of Literary Journalism (narrowed to one element)
  30. Hunter S. Thompson as Media Critic
  31. Literary Journalism as Dispeller of Myths
  32. Truman Capote and His Theory of Horizontal and Vertical