TO UNDERSTAND LITERARY JOURNALISM AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS

Proceeding to a systematization carried out based on a bibliographical review, the article focuses on literary journalism, a practice situated at the confluence of journalism and literature, seeking to understand it in its manifestations. The conceptual possibilities and divergences that surround it, in the myriad of related terms, convey different notions and emphases. The background in Brazil, the U.S., and the world in general, and some ways to go deeper based on the guiding questions of the lead, according to Roberto Herrscher's methodology. The distancing of literary journalism from the hegemonic pyramid journalism, without intending to replace it, as well as the two facets with which it expresses itself: realist/empiricist (narrator as an observer of reality) versus modernist/phenomenologist (narrator as co -creator of reality).