Overview
Develops our understanding of how journalists use their reporting and writing skills to construct award-winning features
Examines how journalists communicate virtues in their stories, providing readers with the opportunity to expand or even change their world view
Argues for the introduction of a new textual analysis tool, the Virtue Map, to illuminate the important role of virtues such as courage, empathy, honesty, resilience, responsibility and phronesis (practical wisdom) in the construction of prize-winning literary journalism
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an important and original way of understanding how journalists use emotion to communicate to readers, posing the deceptively simple question, ‘how do journalists make us feel something when we read their work?’. Martin uses case-studies of award-winning magazine-style features to illuminate how some of the best writers of literary journalism give readers the gift of experiencing a range of perspectives and emotions in the telling of a single story. Part One of this book discusses the origins and development of narrative journalism and introduces a new theoretical framework, the Virtue Paradigm, and a new textual analysis tool, the Virtue Map. Part Two includes three case-studies of prize-winning journalism, demonstrating how the Virtue Paradigm and the Virtue Map provide fresh insight into narrative journalism and the ongoing conversation of what it means to live well together in community.
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About the author
Dr Jennifer Martin, Lecturer in communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, has been teaching journalism for the past decade. She has more than 25 years’ experience working as a journalist and is a past winner of the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing
Book Subtitle: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories
Authors: Jennifer Martin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62978-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62977-9Published: 23 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62980-9Published: 23 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62978-6Published: 22 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 270
Topics: Journalism, Creative Writing