Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

c stirling bartholomew wrote:

> on 6/26/03 9:22 AM, Peter Kirk wrote:
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> > Sorry, I thought that was the point of your argument, fiction
> > masquerading as truth and vice versa. If not, what was your point about
> > "In Cold Blood"? Is it in fact that this is truth presented in the genre
> > of fiction ...
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> Capote wrote what he called a nonfiction novel. He spent several years in
> rural Kansas interviewing the principal players (the ones who were still
> alive!) and then cast his book in the form of a novel.
>
> I am not a reader of True Crime, but I don't think Ann Rule makes any
> attempt to write novels. I believe she is a former Seattle police officer
> and her works focus on the bloody details of things like the "Green River
> Murders." 
>
> However, "In Cold Blood" does share a lot of the formal features of True
> Crime. So one is tempted to conclude that genera stereotyping is something
> we should be cautious about.
>
> The point is that casting something in a fictional form does not mean that
> it is fiction and vise versa.
>
> greetings, Clay 
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> --  
> Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
> Three Tree Point
> P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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Thanks for the clarification.

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