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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... performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker 137 DEIRDRE HEDDON 9 Death sentences: confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness 1 54 RUTH ROBBINS 10 Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: turning ...
... Performance Research, the New Theatre Quarterly, Feminist Futures? (2005), and Women, Theatre and Performance: Auto/ biography and Performance (2004). She is the co-author of Devising Performance: A Critical History (2005). Ann Keniston ...
... has to offer to the new South Africa. Like Keniston, above, Liatsos is absorbed by the complex and contested relationship between 'private' and 'social' confessions. In Chapter 8, 'Personal performance: the 2 Jo Gill.
... performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker', Dee Heddon proposes that the work of contemporary performance artist Bobby Baker resists dominant models of confession through a process of strategic performance which illuminates ...
... performance" ' of private experience (Caldwell 1983: 50)) it looks back both to the practice of Ancient Greek cultures which Foucault describes in 'Technologies of the Self and forward to the autobiographical and confessional writing of ...
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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 |