Date of Award
4-1-1999
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Abstract
Although nonfictional writing provides critical insights into history in ways that fictional writing never could, it is very often relegated to a “second-class citizen” status in the realm of literary criticism and appreciation. Literacy tradition has created a hard line between literature, specifically novels and short stories and poetry, which we regard as created fictions and nonliterary test – journalism, biography, history, essays, and so on- which we think of as records of actuality. This distinction is what prevents us from applying to nonfiction the analytical tools we use to uncover the secrets of "literary art. (McCord 748)
Recommended Citation
Nissen, Jordana L., "Memory and remembrance in selected nonfiction works of Elie Wiesel" (1999). Student Work. 3152.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/3152
Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha. Copyright 1994 Jordana L. Nissen.