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100 1 0 _aThérenty, Marie-Ève
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245 0 0 _aThe Vagabonds of the Telegraph: Representations and the Poetry of Reporting before 1914
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520 _aThis article proposes a study of the emergence of a new form of travel stories. The reporting, by a few famous reporters, such as Pierre Giffard, Gaston Leroux, the Tharaud brothers, Jules Huret, Ludovic Baudeau. A new journalistic style of travel reporting develops, along with the emergence of new means of communication – notably the telegraph – and the Influence of the Anglo-Saxon model of information, based on the prime of fresh news. Every piece of news becomes worthwhile, but war-reporting is the ultimate stereotype of the genre. The report carries a double story: on one hand it sticks to the facts, on the other hand it dramatizes and heroizes the reporters – hence the necessity of writing in the first person at the very time when the accounting claims to be objective. This ambiguity can be put differently: the reporter suffers from his impossible position of observer-traveller and tries, by showing an exposed and suffering body, to change his status. The mythology that still surrounds the reporter proves that this symbolic and early-negotiated operation has perfectly succeeded.
786 0 _nSociétés & Représentations | o 21 | 1 | 2006-03-01 | p. 101-115 | 1262-2966
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-societes-et-representations-2006-1-page-101?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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