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Course Description: Creative Nonfiction
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Course Description: Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

55-4319

Course concentrates on application of fictional and story-writing techniques to nonfiction writing in the nonfiction novel, story, and memoir, as well as in travel, scientific, and anthropological writing. Books such as Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi are studied. Students with a body of nonfiction material who wish to experiment with its nonfiction novelistic development find the course particularly useful.

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