Monday, February 11, 2008

Defining Genre

Genre: "From the French genre for 'kind' or 'type,' the classification of literary works..."
Fiction: "..any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones." - Bedford Glossary

Nonfiction:??

How do we define the genre of nonfiction? Is it the opposite of fiction...any writing that relates real characters and occrrences rather than imagined ones. Is nonfiction prose? Can it be written in verse? Must it always be true?

What do we know about nonfiction as a genre?

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