Green Visors and Ivory Towers: Jean Stafford and the New Journalism

Jean Stafford's shift from fiction to journalistic non-fiction writing may be attributed to her realization that her style, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, was outmoded in the 1960s and more suited to the New Journalism that was emerging then. Stafford's output of more than 150 non-fiction...

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Published in:	The Kenyon review 1994-09, Vol.16 (4), p.104-119
Main Author:	Ryan, Maureen
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 American literature Authors Biographers English Literature Essays Journal writing Journalism Literary criticism Literature Mothers new journalism Nonfiction Novelists Novels prose Stafford, Jean Twentieth Century Writers
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Summary:	Jean Stafford's shift from fiction to journalistic non-fiction writing may be attributed to her realization that her style, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, was outmoded in the 1960s and more suited to the New Journalism that was emerging then. Stafford's output of more than 150 non-fictional literary pieces has been neglected by her critics and biographers, who consider her journalistic works a digression. Stafford's style was characterized by her meticulous and elegant use of language that fitted into the combination of fiction and journalism, which was known as New Journalism.
ISSN:	0163-075X 2327-8307