ST Alpha - "That makes no sense to me. Plays are not really that different than a novel so why the difference?" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 155

In response to "It's totally made up, like most plays. But plays are not novels, so they're put in nonfiction. -- nm" by mara

That makes no sense to me. Plays are not really that different than a novel so why the difference?

Posted by Krusty (aka krustylu) Jul 29 '16, 15:00

I'm so confused. If it's a made up story it should be in fiction. Seems simple. If it's a true story, biography, technical journal etc., then it's non-fiction.
I'm lost in why all plays would be non-fiction.

Responses:

See my last post below. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:10
at my store we had ~80 sections - none were called "non-fiction" - mud Jul 29, 15:05 1
- Yeah, as much as anything else, libraries are just trying to come up with a single word to call the items with Dewey Decimal numbers. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:14

Post a message top

That makes no sense to me. Plays are not really that different than a novel so why the difference?

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.