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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... authority and subjectivity are challenged. In their place a range of critical perspectives and practices are adopted, utilizing the insights of contemporary critical theorists. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new ...
... authority and authenticity and to embrace, and find new ways of addressing, the difficulty and slipperiness - which is also the fascination - of modern variations on the form. This collection offers the first critical survey of this ...
... authority of the subject, and the accessibility and desirability of authentic truth. As David Attwell puts it in an interview with J.M. Coetzee; 'it is logical that you should bring decon- struction to bear on the analysis of confession ...
... authority who requires the confession, prescribes and appreciates it, and intervenes in order to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile. (1981:61-2). Confession, then is not a means of expressing the irrepressible truth of prior ...
... authority — is the fourth Lateran Council (1215). This, for the first time, prescribed annual confession and penance for the faithful, making it a condition for admission to Easter communion (Bossy 1985). During the fifteenth century ...
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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 |