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Compression: When Less Says More

Compression: When Less Says More Fr om the Classr oom Variations on a Theme of Putting Nonfiction in Its Place Robert L. Root Jr. Editor’s Note: Robert L. Root Jr. played an instrumental role in this From the Classroom section. His article, which follows, inspired the editorial staff to create a section on teaching creative nonfiction. Variation 1. Non·fic·tion (non-’fik-shun) n : not fiction Most dictionaries offer very little help in getting a handle on nonfiction, but in any concrete way the word itself is not very evocative or self-defining. Imag- ine having labeled television as nonradio or cinema as nonpublication or saint as nonprophet.Efforts to coin a catchy alternative in our own jargon-laden dis- cipline have left us nonplussed. The term “literary journalism” is too limited, excluding too much nonfiction that is also literary but not journalistic; the term “creative nonfiction” is too oppositional, implying a need to distinguish it from “noncreative nonfiction.” That’s the problem with this “non” busi- ness — it reduces everything to dichotomies: fiction opposed to nonfiction, creative opposed to noncreative, and so on. In this post age, where we distin- guish ourselves from earlier ages chiefly by being beyond them —postmodern, poststructuralist, postprocess — perhaps we should simply http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Compression: When Less Says More

Bloom, Lynn Z.
Pedagogy , Volume 4 (2) – Apr 1, 2004
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Fr om the Classr oom Variations on a Theme of Putting Nonfiction in Its Place Robert L. Root Jr. Editor’s Note: Robert L. Root Jr. played an instrumental role in this From the Classroom section. His article, which follows, inspired the editorial staff to create a section on teaching creative nonfiction. Variation 1. Non·fic·tion (non-’fik-shun) n : not fiction Most dictionaries offer very little help in getting a handle on nonfiction, but in any concrete way the word itself is not very evocative or self-defining. Imag- ine having labeled television as nonradio or cinema as nonpublication or saint as nonprophet.Efforts to coin a catchy alternative in our own jargon-laden dis- cipline have left us nonplussed. The term “literary journalism” is too limited, excluding too much nonfiction that is also literary but not journalistic; the term “creative nonfiction” is too oppositional, implying a need to distinguish it from “noncreative nonfiction.” That’s the problem with this “non” busi- ness — it reduces everything to dichotomies: fiction opposed to nonfiction, creative opposed to noncreative, and so on. In this post age, where we distin- guish ourselves from earlier ages chiefly by being beyond them —postmodern, poststructuralist, postprocess — perhaps we should simply

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