TY - JOUR AU - Przeszlakowska-Wasilewska, Joanna PY - 2012/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE IMAGE OF NEW YORK IN AMERICAN LITERARY NON-FICTION REPRESENTED BY GAY TALESE’S A SERENDIPITER’S JOURNEY JF - Acta Neophilologica JA - an VL - 2 IS - XIV SE - Literaturoznawstwo DO - UR - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/an/article/view/967 SP - 199-207 AB - <p>The paper is devoted to the image of New York City created by a representative of<br>American post-war literary non-fiction, Gay Talese. What is especially brought into focus<br>in the analyzed New York – A Serendipiter’s Journey is the approach the writer employs to<br>present his personal picture of the city. Talese’s attitude consists in combining some key<br>techniques of traditional reporting with a more individual and imaginative treatment relying<br>on a wanderer’s/stroller’s point of view. From the perspective of a city traveller New York<br>is unconventionally pictured through its untypical and usually unnoticed aspects such as e.g.<br>forgotten places and odd occupations. It is emphasized that the writer’s image of the city<br>actually results from a number of pictures accumulated in the course of his own and many<br>other individual journeys. Finally, the paper accentuates the effectiveness of the literary<br>journalistic technique of merging the non-fictional with the literary in order to convey the<br>convincing and credible vision of reality.</p> ER -