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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... narratives of terminal illness 1 54 RUTH ROBBINS 10 Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: turning the subject inside out 166 SUSANNAH RADSTONE 1 1 How we confess now: reading the Abu Ghraib archive 180 LEIGH GILMORE Index 193 ...
... narratives of terminal illness', considers a number of contemporary narratives of illness and dying. Robbins is interested in the apparent inadequacy of the 'abstractions of theory' to account for what we see and feel as we read these ...
... Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Coetzee, J.M. (1992) Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, ed. D. Attwell, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Egan, S. (1999) Mirror Talk ...
... narrative of the woman as a lone victim. If the marriage hadn't gone wrong and ended, biographers wouldn't present the Wevills' visit as they primarily do, with a distorting hindsight, and then squeeze 'The Rabbit Catcher' and 'Event ...
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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 |