Is the chronicle a literary or journalistic genre?
"Chronicle" is a term that is used inseveral senses. They designate a certain type of historical works, a literary genre and, finally, the so-called special sections of newspapers, magazines or other mass media.
In a word, the closest thing to the named is the "chronicle", which in many respects explains the features of the style and language of all works that can be attributed to chronological.
What the newspaper chronicles tell
Chronicle in newspapers, magazines or on televisionis often the most popular genre, since it allows the reader (or the TV viewer, when it comes to television news) to be aware of what is happening in the world or in a specific region.
The information chronicle is a list of events,covering the most diverse areas of human life: politics, science, art, etc. Readers can be given a chronicle of theatrical life, fashion or sports, and the main purpose of such publications is to inform about specific events occurring during the designated time period (during the day , a week, a month, etc.).
It should be noted that, due to the peculiarity of thisgenre of journalism, there is practically no creative origin in this kind of publications. And this is understandable, since artistic fiction in chronicles is simply impossible, because material for them is supplied by real events. This, of course, has an impact on the style and language of these notes - most often they are stencilled, do not allow possible interpretations and are compressed to one or four sentences.
Features of newspaper news
Chronicle is the most popular genre for newspapernotes, in its form, selections from short notes, television or radio news, as well as announcements are written. In the headlines of news articles are often entered ascertaining messages, which even the page of the information publication is turned into a sort of scattered chronicle that records actual events.
A feature of the notes relating to the chronicle,is that they deliver to the reader only the very fact, without giving him an assessment and not inviting to meditation. The main thing for such information is to inform that, where and when it happened, happens or will happen in a short period of time.
Gossip column
Recently, the media has become very populargossip column. This is a special genre of journalism, concerning the life of movie stars, famous actors of cinema, theater or variety, as well as people whose names for the average person are associated with secular life.
Earlier in Russia, England or France of such honorOnly people belonging to a higher society were honored, now, when the division of society into classes is not so pronounced, any popular person (sometimes even becoming such an outrageous image) may turn out to be a hero of the secular chronicle. Similar sections in magazines, and sometimes special editions devoted only to this topic, describe the high-society receptions, dinners and events from the personal life of show business stars or celebrities.
Secular chronicles are publications, a featurewhich is the focus on sensationalism and expressiveness of presentation, which must necessarily attract the attention of the widest sections of the public. Unfortunately, the information provided in the secular chronicle, due to its constant desire to impress, amaze and surprise, is often inaccurate, and sometimes just invented.
What is the historical chronicle
Historical chronicles are a kind of works that set out the events in the order in which they occurred.
This genre was very popular in the medievalliterature and covered, as a rule, the period from the most remote times, leaving for the emergence of the world, up to the contemporary author days. The story usually concerned not the history of a single nation, but the development of the entire universe. Since the author of such works were monks, then in the exposition there were always revealed church tendencies.
Some of the stories from the chronicles subsequentlybecame the basis for literary works. A striking example of this can serve as the dramatic chronicles of William Shakespeare, where the great author, almost without departing from the basis of his source, developed images of heroes and artistically arranged events.
Chronicle is also a literary genre
Since then, the chronicle has become not only a historical interpretation of events, but also an independent literary genre, for example, The Chronicle of the Time of Charles IX by Prosper Merimee.
By the way, writers are the main hero of thisworks often make the image of a chronicler - an impartial observer, who fixes what he has seen and experienced (FM Dostoevsky often resorted to this technique). And ME Saltykov-Shchedrin liked to parody the genre (for example, in "The History of a City").
In the 20th century, the chronicle is a genre in which documentary works are written, as well as unfolded novel-cycles (for example, "The Life of Klim Samgin" by Maxim Gorky).
