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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lee Gutkind; Hattie Fletcher Buck |
| ISBN: | 9780393330984 : 0393330982 |
| OCLC Number: | 227016381 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. |
| Description: | 167 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Private and public : the range and scope of creative nonfiction / by Lee Gutkind -- The ABCs of creative nonfiction. Acknowledgment of sources ; Backdoor access ; Checkbook journalism ; Composite characters ; Compression ; Defamation and libel ; Evolution of the genre ; Facts ; Fact-checking ; Family members as characters ; Forewords and afterwords ; Frame ; Getting inside characters' heads ; Guiding the reader ; Gunkholing : finding a story ; History into nonfiction narrative ; The "I" ; Immersion ; Influencing readers ; Keeping it brief ; Legal responsibilities of publishers ; The lyric essay ; The memoir craze ; Metaphor ; Montage writing ; The narrative impulse ; Navel-gazing ; Point of view ; Psychoanalyzing characters ; Quotation marks ; Reconstruction of events ; Reflection ; The roots of memoir ; Scenes ; Subjectivity ; Tape recording ; Truth ; Use of imagination ; The vagaries of memory ; Whose story to tell ; Writers' responsibility to subjects. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher. |
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