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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... Autobiographies: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994) and The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001). She is completing a book on privacy, self-representation and global publics. Elizabeth Gregory is an ...
... autobiography and the literature of trauma and testimony) and disciplines (law and psychology, for example). For most of the critics collected here, modern confessional writing is not hermetically sealed from its historical and cultural ...
... autobiographical and confessional writing of the modern age. Ian Watt notes the influence of this Protestant tradition of 'self-scrutiny' and 'introspection', even or especially when 'religious conviction weakened', on the writing of ...
... Autobiography, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. Eggers, D. (2000) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, London: Picador. Foucault, M. (1981) The History of Sexuality. Volume One: An Introduction, trans. R ...
... autobiography: the authoritative tale of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath.1 What may appear more surprising is that the ... autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1998: 10). Other critics, in Dangerous confessions: the problem of reading ...
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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 |