Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction

by Chris Anderson

Taking the position that style has a value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story a nonfiction writer has to tell, Anderson analyzes the work of America's foremost practitioners of New Journalism--Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion.

Anderson does for nonfiction what insightful critics have long been doing for fiction and poetry. His approach is rhetorical, and his message is that the rhetoric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313146
• ISBN13: 9780809313143
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"