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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... Ted Hughes, Dave Eggers and Njabulo Ndebele. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate — and in most cases critique — conventional readings of confession- alism. Orthodox humanist notions of the ...
... Ted Hughes and the contemporary confessional memoir. Leigh Gilmore is a visiting professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Autobiographies: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self ...
... Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters), in its ironical parody of 'self-abasement expressed in cliches' (see Guenther's chapter on Bridget Jones's Diary or Nicol's chapter on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), in its de-centring of the ...
... Ted Hughes's encounter with a bear while camping in Yellowstone Park during the summer of 1959.3 The incident is worth pausing over, because most critics and biographers agree that it led directly to Plath's 1959 short story, The Fifty ...
... Hughes's sister Olwyn while in Yorkshire in I960,1 or the visit Assia Wevill and her husband made to Plath and Hughes ... Ted . . . Creeping up behind him, she lifted her nightgown to her chin, released it to flutter down over his face and ...
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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 |