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Creative nonfiction (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Creative nonfiction
Used for/see from:
  • Fourth genre (Creative nonfiction)
  • Literary nonfiction
  • Narrative nonfiction
  • Nonfiction, Creative
  • Nonfiction, Literary
  • Nonfiction, Narrative
See also:

Work cat.: Myburgh, H.M.M. Die vierde genre, 2009.

Pearson website, Sept. 10, 2009 (Fourth Genre; evolving genre of creative nonfiction; acknowledging the literary impulse of nonfiction to be a fourth genre equivalent to poetry, fiction, and drama; subgenres of the nonfiction form, including memoir, nature writing, personal essays, literary journalism, cultural criticism, and travel writing)

Wikipedia, Sept. 10, 2009 (Creative nonfiction (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives; contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft)

Creative nonfiction WWW site, Feb. 22, 2010: (Creative nonfiction: the literary craft of presenting nonfiction -- that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events -- in a compelling, vivid manner; creative nonfiction writers do not make things up, they make ideas and information that already exists more interesting and often more accessible; presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact; the genre has been an anchoring element of the literary world for many years)

Krog, A. Creative non-fiction, 2011.

Dutch gifts : stories, poems and creative non-fiction on a Netherlandic theme, 1991.

Here are entered works that use literary styles and techniques to present factually accurate narratives in a compelling, vivid manner.

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