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‖ rapportage
(ræpɔːˈtaʒ, ‖ rapɔrtaʒ)
[Fr., ‘tale-telling’: Eng. usage is influenced by reportage.]
The reporting or describing of events in writing; mere description, uncreative accounting. Also transf.
1903Independent 22 Jan. 210/2 It has nearly disabled prose fiction..by making of it a trade or handicraft, an affair of rapportage. 1935S. Spender Destructive Element i. 26 James's earlier books are much fuller of descriptive writing and rapportage than the later books. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Nov. 667/2 In describing his visits to the three North African territories in 1956 he has produced the modern counterpart to those brilliant pieces of pre-war rapportage. 1960K. Clark Looking at Pictures 145 The Snowstorm is very far from rapportage. It is the essence of all that Turner had discovered about himself and his art during forty years of practice. 1966C. Mackenzie My Life & Times V. 141, I decided it was too soon to write a novel about the war. Experience which had not been ‘cooled a long age’ might produce rapportage instead of genuine creative work. |