Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer in the Context of the Main Features of New New Journalism Cover Image

Wszystko za Everest Jona Krakauera w kontekście głównych założeń Nowego Nowego Dziennikarstwa
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer in the Context of the Main Features of New New Journalism

Author(s): Edyta Żyrek-Horodyska
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Jon Krakauer; Into Thin Air; New New Journalism; immersion; reportage;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present Jon Krakauer’s reportage Into Thin Air in the context of the main features of New New Journalism. The author critically discusses the most important elements of this paradigm, which refers on the one hand to the legacy of muckrakers from the beginning of 20th-century, and on the other hand – to the tradition of American reporters from the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed research was devoted to the Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, which has been described as a journalistic syncretic form, combining elements of auto-reportage, immersive reportage and paraliterature.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 51-65
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish