Narratives and Real Stories: Rules Governing Literary Journalism

Literary journalism, a hybrid writing style that borrows techniques from journalism and prose fiction, is being scrutinized as literature since its conception in early twentieth century. This kind of genre when read, arouse in readers the feelings of empathy and rejoining with their own experiences and sensations. Taking some fitting examples of this genre from American literature, the purpose in this paper is to identify the journalistic research methodologies which have contributed to the fictional tradition as much as what the use of literary narrative methods have meant to the journalism tradition.