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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New Critical Essays Jo Gill. Modern. Confessional. Writing. Modern Confessional Writing offers the first comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays in this collection take as their subject ...
... confession and the limits of identification 50 ANN KENISTON 4 'Your story. My story': confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters 67 JO GILL 5 Bridget Jones's Diary: confessing post-feminism 84 LEAH GUENTHER 6 'The memoir as ...
... modern confessional writing, we are faced immediately with a sense of its complexity, its indeterminacy and its ... confessional writing from other forms of confession (psychoanalytic, legal, religious?) What, if anything, distinguishes ...
... writers and issues. Chronologically, these range from the beginning of what, for the purposes of this book, I am defining as the modern era of confessional writing (that is, the period from the late 1950s when the 'confessional' mode of ...
New Critical Essays Jo Gill. 'private' and 'social' confessions. In Chapter 8, 'Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker', Dee Heddon proposes that the work of contemporary performance artist Bobby Baker resists ...
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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 |