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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... discourses and the post-apartheid South African novel. She is currently Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma. Bran Nicol is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He ...
... discourses of confession and of testimony. She points to the disjunction between the practice of recent confessional fiction and the insights of confessional theory and suggests that a similar critical distance - a sense of the mode's ...
... discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement; it is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship, for one does not confess without the presence (or virtual presence) of a partner who is not ...
... discourse of gender and sexuality, and indeed identity. Diane Middlebrook, in 'What was Confessional Poetry?', mentioned earlier, sees the rise of confessional writing in the late twentieth century as coincident with the pervasiveness ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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 |