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Title
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Telling the truth: creative nonfiction in Capote's In Cold Blood & Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
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Creator
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Capp, James R., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Abstract/Description
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In the American creative nonfiction genre, the line between fact and fiction is ever-blurring. Two novels which strive for realness and are thematically related in their focus on a cause célèbre and the death penalty, Truman Capote's In cold blood and Norman Mailer's The executioner's song, offer clues that might help approach the question of what makes a specific work fall under the category of creative nonfiction. I analyze the creative techniques that the authors use in their novels, and I...
Show moreIn the American creative nonfiction genre, the line between fact and fiction is ever-blurring. Two novels which strive for realness and are thematically related in their focus on a cause célèbre and the death penalty, Truman Capote's In cold blood and Norman Mailer's The executioner's song, offer clues that might help approach the question of what makes a specific work fall under the category of creative nonfiction. I analyze the creative techniques that the authors use in their novels, and I consider details from the texts about the activeness and reliability of the narrators in the two books, as well as consequent political implications. Additionally, I ground my examination of these novels in a discussion of the progress from the early novel's drive for realism to twentieth-century literary journalism.
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Date Issued
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2008
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77661
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, American prose literature, Reportage literature, Technique
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Format
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Document (PDF)
