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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... genre. The essays in this collection take as their subject confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, including the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes, Dave Eggers and Njabulo Ndebele ...
... genres from a range of contexts it also exemplifies and tests a range of theoretical perspectives and strategies drawn from a broad range of related genres (including autobiography and the literature of trauma and testimony) and ...
... genre (Gammel 1999: 1). A number of the essays collected below implicitly or otherwise address this contention, seeing confession as part of a broader discourse of gender and sexuality, and indeed identity. Diane Middlebrook, in 'What ...
... Genres of Crisis in Contemporary 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 ...
... genre, observes how hard it is for biographers to get their material: 'Some of the secrets are difficult to bring away, and some, jealously guarded by relatives, are even impossible' (1994: 10). Malcolm's argument is that readers trust ...
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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 |