Paper Outline

Thesis Para:
The mode of the Bible, as described by Northrop Frye, is one of Kerygma, or the balancing space between Proclamation and Revelation. Through the interplay of these two modes, the writers of the Bible forego the abject moralizing of mythology while only tangentially serving the purpose of the historical. Extending past the three steps of literacy as outlined by Frye, the Bible is a text out of time that has an awareness of its own intertextuality yet doesn't become suspended in its own symbols and narratives such that it exists outside of the people who wrote it. It can be used as an illustrative text of history that contains enough detail and parallel to it resemble a history, and enough firman to make it a legal document, however, it would never mistaken as either. I believe that this parallels the rhetorical mode of long form journalism, specifically the literary kind, and through a brief, and so sophomoric, attempt at literary analysis, I will show through parallels in style, symbol, and imagery, that Creative nonfiction Journalism is as historical as one might think, and may even inhabit this middle ground of Kerygma.

BASE TEXTS:
Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD: it is the paragon of literary nonfiction.
From the BIBLE: Parables, Job, Samuel 1&2, David, Gospels, Revelation.
FRYE: THE GREAT CODE
FRYE: ARCHETYPES
NEED MOAR!

REFERENTIAL TEXTS:
UPTON SINCLAIR'S THE JUNGLE



PARA 1: DEFINITIONS

PARA 2-4: ARGUMENT, THE RHETORICAL MODES OF -----

PARA 5-7: ARGUMENT 2, THE SYMBOLS OF -----

PARA 8-10: THE NARRATIVE STYLING OF -----

Both INCB and The book of Revelation hint at a happyish ending wherein the unjust are punished and the good are redeemed. However, it is a muted happiness in INCB because the author has humanized the characters, shown them as slaves to their desires and fates and situations just as the ethical wrestling of Job echoes through the halls of judgement.

PARA 11-13: TURN: DOES THIS EXPAND BEYOND CNF?

It is possible that Truman was writing into these themes on purpose, therefore my conclusions are not as organic as I would like them to be- does this matter? //This seems to support your point!//



14 - 16: THE HOLES, RECOGNITION OF SOPHISMS AND AREAS NEEDED OF GREATER RESEARCH.

///You're using brief samplings here, too much induction, as Frye demands you not to do///

A literary analysis ignores the place of the two texts in their respective societies.

PARA 18: Conclusion: (get to this organically)