Word: factualism
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...facts? Then you would have Eric Fried's "Philadelphia Story" opinion piece, which appeared in The Crimson on March 7. The article is basically flawed and requires a response. Leaving aside the sarcastic tone and pejorative phrases running through the entire article, we should point out the several factual errors and mistaken impressions in the piece...
Editor Sally Fitzgerald has performed a labor of love and an act of model scholarship. When factual information is needed, she gives it succinctly and then stands back. This record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...
John McPhee's "factual story" brand of writing successfully revives Henry David Thoreau's (Class of 1837) ideas on creative factual writing, William Howarth, associate professor of English at Princeton, told a small audience yesterday...
McPhee, who has written on such diverse subjects as ex-basketball star Bill Bradley, oranges, and new forms of powered flight, takes factual material and tries to deal with it in an unusual way, Howarth said...
...story is cast in the form of a review of a nonexistent book. Lem, of course, is both reviewer and conceiver of the unwritten texts. Some are fairly straightforward social and literary satires. Les Robinsonades dismisses Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a puritanized fiction based on a brutish factual account of a castaway (which it was), and presents a New Robinson who is not nostalgic for a lost culture. He re-creates his world from scratch, dreaming into being a manservant named Snibbins and a three-legged female companion called Wendy Mae. The course of true creation never runs...