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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... contemporary critical theorists. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed perspectives on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these ...
... 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-Representation (1994) and The ...
... Contemporary Novel: A Reader (2002). Susannah Radstone is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is the co-editor of Contested Pasts and Regimes of Memory (2003) and ...
... contemporary examples of confessional writing but emergent approaches to its study. In this respect, Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays is not simply a companion to recent confessional writing, but a critical guide to new ...
... contemporary popular fiction, and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary which Leah Guenther reads in the light of successive 'waves' of modern feminism. Guenther sees the personal diary as the site of self- scrutiny, and of self ...
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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 |