Non-fiction literature *IS* historical

For a non-fiction text, a proper literary analysis ought to be no different than historical analysis. Therefore, if we distinguish between "literary" and "historical" interpretations of the same text, do we not essentially fictionalize the contents of that text?
Posted by Bill Heroman on Friday, October 30, 2009

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