NEW JOURNALISM AND TRUMAN CAPOTE’S IN COLD BLOOD

Abstract

New Journalism was a response to the new competitive situation brought about by the new forms of narration in the postwar era introduced by the mass media besides being the successor of a long-term American tradition in literature. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1966) is often considered to be a magnum opus of New Journalism, which attracted considerable attention in terms of the aesthetic and theoretical questions it raised. This article mainly scrutinizes the possibilities of fictionalizing the reality and of the capability of the author to offer a new form of writing reconciling the mass-mediated forms of narration and aesthetics of conventional fiction with references to the Capote’s efforts to transform literary aesthetics.

Keywords

• New Journalism
• American Literature
• Literary Aesthetics
• Realist Fiction

YENİ HABERCİLİK VE TRUMAN CAPOTE’NIN SOĞUKKANLILIKLA ROMANI

Abstract

Yeni Habercilik, savaş sonrası dönemde medya tarafından yaratılan yeni anlatı formları ile rekabet etme gerekliliğine karşı geliştirilmiş edebi bir tepki olduğu kadar Amerikan edebiyat geleneğindeki gerçekçi akımın da yeniden gözden geçirilmiş bir halini sunar. Truman Capote’nin Soğukkanlılıkla başlıklı romanı Yeni Habercilik akımının önemli örnekleri arasında yer alır ve ortaya koyduğu estetik ve kuramsal sorular bağlamında yoğun bir ilgiye mazhar olmuştur. Bu makale, Capote’nin edebi estetiği dönüştürme çabaları bağlamında gerçekliğin kurgulaştırılması ve medyanın sunduğu yeni anlatı türleri ve geleneksel kurgu estetiğini uzlaştırma bağlamında yazarın olanaklarını tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Keywords

• Yeni Habercilik
• Gerçekçi Kurgu
• Amerikan Edebiyatı
• Edebi Estetik

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