Craig White's Literature Courses Terms / Themes Nonfiction see also fiction; creative nonfiction sub-genre: informational text

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Alternative terms: reportage, facts, discursive writing, eyewitness description (implying no mediation by writer)

Nonfiction genres (in descending order of interest to literary studies)

autobiography

memoir

personal narratives, accounts, or relations

essay

travel writing

history

biography

monograph (book-length essay)

speeches

books of quotations

Oxford English Dictionary. non-fiction. 1.a. Prose writing other than fiction, such as history, biography, and reference works, esp. that which is concerned with the narrative depiction of factual events; the genre comprising this.

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