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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... Holocaust confession and the limits of identification 50 ANN KENISTON 4 'Your story. My story': confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters 67 JO GILL 5 Bridget Jones's Diary: confessing post-feminism 84 LEAH GUENTHER 6 'The ...
... Holocaust confession and the limits of identification' examines the fusion in her work of a personal voice with one which is public and politically conscious - a fusion which Keniston sees as enlarging the scope of confession. Jo Gill's ...
... , with the rise of the television talk show and the cult of the celebrity. These are studies of modern confessional writing in the world — in South Africa, in post-Holocaust contexts, in relation to changing gender dynamics,. imtem. }
New Critical Essays Jo Gill. Africa, in post-Holocaust contexts, in relation to changing gender dynamics, and finally in contemporary Iraq. This variety notwithstanding, a common theme throughout the collection, one to which I will ...
... Holocaust, as Susannah Radstone and Ann Keniston argue, we find to be wholly inadequate? Phillips' assertion that confessional writing is 'therapeutic and/or purgative' is still a commonly held view; Erica Wagner describes Dave Eggers's ...
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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 |