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Gonzo Republic looks at Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America. Thompson was a patriot but also a stubborn individualist. Stephenson examines the whole range of Thompson's work, from his early reporting from the South American client states of the USA in the 1960s to his twenty-first-century internet columns on sport, politics and 9/11. Stephenson argues that Thompson inhabited, but was to some extent reacting against, the tradition of American individualism begun by the Founding Fathers and continued by Emerson and Thoreau. Thompson sought out the edge-the threshold of chaos and insanity-in order to define himself. His characters enact the same quest, travelling through the surreal landscape of his literary America: the Gonzo Republic
National characteristics, American. --- American national characteristics --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Duke, Raoul --- Tompson, Khanter --- תומפסון, האנטר ס.
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With new biographical information about Thompson and an examination of his writing techniques, this book provides readers with a better understanding of the journalist and novelist. A look beyond the larger-than-life public persona, Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo will be of great interest to fans of Thompson's work as well as to those wanting to know more about gonzo journalism and literature.
American literature --- Reportage literature, American --- History and criticism. --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Duke, Raoul --- Tompson, Khanter --- תומפסון, האנטר ס.
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"The label "Gonzo journalism" is challenged, questioned, and ultimately expanded by this wide-ranging, multinational collection"--
Journalists --- Journalism --- American literature --- Bias in journalism --- Slanted news --- Journalistic ethics --- Objectivity --- Press and propaganda --- History and criticism --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Duke, Raoul --- Tompson, Khanter --- תומפסון, האנטר ס. --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- #KVHA:Journalistiek --- #KVHA:Gonzo journalistiek --- #KVHA:Subjectiviteit; journalistiek --- Gonzo journalism. --- History and criticism. --- #SBIB:309H01 --- #SBIB:309H301 --- Communicatiewetenschap: encyclopedieën, woordenboeken, naslagwerken, bibliografieën --- De communicator in de verschillende media (pers, omroep, film, boekenindustrie, ...)
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Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment and objectivity, these New Journalists employed their subjective, literary styles to construct their narrative personae and to dramatize not only the events like the Vietnam War and the 1972 presidential campaign but their direct participation in t
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Didion, Joan -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Herr, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism. --- Thompson, Hunter S. -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Reportage literature, American --- American prose literature --- Journalism --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American reportage literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Herr, Michael, --- Mailer, Norman --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Duke, Raoul --- Tompson, Khanter --- תומפסון, האנטר ס. --- Mailer, Nachem Malek --- Meĭler, Norman --- Мейлер, Норман --- History and criticism.
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