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Telling the truth
- Date Issued:
- 2008
- Summary:
- 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 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.
Title: | Telling the truth: creative nonfiction in Capote's In Cold Blood & Mailer's The Executioner's Song. |
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Name(s): |
Capp, James R. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Thesis | |
Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
Date Issued: | 2008 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
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Extent: | v, 50 leaves. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | 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 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. | |
Identifier: | 299575681 (oclc), 77661 (digitool), FADT77661 (IID), fau:1481 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
by James R. Capp. Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2008. Bibliography: leaves 49-50. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008 Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject(s): |
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 Mailer, Norman, 1923-2007 American prose literature -- 20th century Reportage literature -- Technique |
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Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77661 | |
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