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From: SendtoJMA at aol.com <SendtoJMA>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:39:08 EST
In a message dated 4/2/2002 1:18:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, horning at education.wisc.edu writes:
Maybe what we need, as some others have already suggested, is a different term. If "creative nonfiction" implies either that the author is allowed to take liberties with the facts, or that other nonfiction is not creative, then it's clearly a troublesome word. I agree that inventing dialgoe and giving animals names and projecting human responses onto them is eyebrow-raising if called nonfiction. I would simply call that fiction. Perhaps we would use the term "lively nonfiction" to describe the kind of interesting and dynamic (but factual) stuff that people are writing lately. Or simply "good nonfiction." That would distinguish it from nonfiction that is either dull or which plays fast and loose with the facts.
Jennifer Armstrong
Received on Tue 02 Apr 2002 01:39:08 PM CST
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:39:08 EST
In a message dated 4/2/2002 1:18:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, horning at education.wisc.edu writes:
Maybe what we need, as some others have already suggested, is a different term. If "creative nonfiction" implies either that the author is allowed to take liberties with the facts, or that other nonfiction is not creative, then it's clearly a troublesome word. I agree that inventing dialgoe and giving animals names and projecting human responses onto them is eyebrow-raising if called nonfiction. I would simply call that fiction. Perhaps we would use the term "lively nonfiction" to describe the kind of interesting and dynamic (but factual) stuff that people are writing lately. Or simply "good nonfiction." That would distinguish it from nonfiction that is either dull or which plays fast and loose with the facts.
Jennifer Armstrong
Received on Tue 02 Apr 2002 01:39:08 PM CST
