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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... Diary: confessing post-feminism 84 LEAH GUENTHER 6 'The memoir as self-destruction': A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1 00 BRAN NICOL 7 Truth, confession and the post-apartheid black consciousness in Njabulo.
... consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela 1 1 5 YI ANNA LI ATSOS 8 Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker 137 DEIRDRE HEDDON 9 Death sentences: confessions of living with dying in narratives of ...
... consciousness. It argues that it is the process and difficulties of confession as much as the 'story' ostensibly at its heart which are its primary concern. In the next chapter 'Bridget Jones's Diary: confessing post-feminism' we turn ...
... conscious artfulness to be found in much recent confessional writing) and to the rise of Romanticism. Susan Sontag sees as instrumental to the 'modern idea of individuality' Romantic attitudes towards, and aestheticization of, sickness ...
... consciousness about the nature and limitations of his chosen form. However, what is distinctive about the work under ... conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality' (Eggers ...
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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 |