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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... biographical accounts of her life and work, Brain raises important questions about the legitimacy of reading confessionally. Thereafter, Elizabeth Gregory in 'Confessing the body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the ...
... biographical material on which such readings are based. The material I will focus on will include conventional biographies, Plath's own letters and journals, fictional and cinematic treatments of Plath's life, and recent comments by ...
... biographical. Yezzi provides a useful working definition of what most critics mean when they use the term confessional poetry: What distinguishes confessional poetry's management of autobiography ... is the rawness of its address and ...
... biographical material. So and so says in their biography that Plath did or thought this, therefore it must be clear that such and such a poem or story replicates that incident or thought. I often meet this response from students, but ...
... biographical readings, which see the poems as a direct response to Plath's sense of threat by Assia, are distorted by what they think they 'know' of the life, and miss one of the most important points about 'The Rabbit Catcher' 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 |