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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... poems appeared in Spring 2005 from David Robert Books. Her essay on Rich is part of a new book on memory and ghosts in postwar American poetry. Yianna Liatsos was awarded a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Contributors.
... Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1995 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Introduction Jo Gill We don't really know what we think Acknowledgements.
... Poets (1973) - itself exemplary of widespread critical tendencies in the first part of the period covered by this book. Where conventional readings of confessional writing identify a determinate T speaking directly and colloquially to ...
... Poets, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Reik, T. (1961) The Compulsion to Confess: On the Psychoanalysis of Crime and of Punishment, New York: Grove Press. Rosenthal, M.L. (1959) 'Poetry as Confession', The Nation 189 ...
... poets have their own photographic images placed on their front dust jackets, but most editions of The Bell Jar and The Collected Poems put Plath's picture on their covers. Such a practice suggests, before the book is even opened, that ...
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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 |