Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson by Alexander, Robert
Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson by Alexander, Robert

Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson

For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been...
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Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson by Alexander, Robert

Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson

CHF 98.27
Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson by Alexander, Robert

Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson

CHF 98.27
Author: Robert Alexander
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled Gonzo. In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon.

In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. In each chapter, Gonzo emerges as a powerful but unstable signifier, read and practiced with different accents and emphases in the various national, cultural, political, and journalistic contexts in which it has erupted. Whether immersed in the Dutch crack scene, exploring the Polish version of Route 66, following the trail of the 2014 South African General Election, or committing unspeakable acts on the bus to Turku, the writers described in this volume are driven by the same fearless disdain for convention and profound commitment to rattling received opinion with which the outlaw journalist Thompson scorched his way into the American consciousness in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.

Author: Robert Alexander
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781501361661

About the Author

Robert Alexander is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. A former reporter, his academic work has appeared in Literary Journalism Studies, Language and Communication, Semiotic Inquiry/Recherches Sémiotiques, and Criticism.

Christine Isager is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her studies in the field of written communication in general and literal journalism in particular have appeared in Rhetorica Scandinavica, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Journalistica, and Literary Journalism Studies.
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