Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical EssaysJo Gill Routledge, 29 mrt 2006 - 208 pagina's A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary act of confession and its assumed relationship to truth, authority and subjectivity are challenged, and in their place a range of new critical perspectives and practices are adopted. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed views on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception that it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre. |
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... Bobby Baker 137 DEIRDRE HEDDON 9 Death sentences: confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness 1 54 RUTH ROBBINS 10 Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: turning the subject inside out 166 SUSANNAH RADSTONE ...
... Bobby Baker', Dee Heddon proposes that the work of contemporary performance artist Bobby Baker resists dominant models of confession through a process of strategic performance which illuminates its performed (artful) nature and ...
... Robert Phillips' influential study The Confessional Poets (1973) - itself exemplary of widespread critical tendencies in the first part of the period covered by this book. Where conventional readings of ... Bobby Baker, for Introduction.
... Bobby Baker, for example) that modern confession distinguishes itself. One of the characteristics which all of the confessions discussed here share is this profound knowingness about the conventions and expectations of the form with ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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Plath Sexton Berryman | 33 |
Adrienne Richs | 50 |
confessional writing and | 67 |
confessing postfeminism | 84 |
A Heartbreaking | 100 |
the resistant confessions | 137 |
confessions of living with dying | 154 |
reading the Abu Ghraib | 180 |
Index | 193 |