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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... poetics of the 'real' 33 ELIZABETH GREGORY 3 'To feel with a human stranger': Adrienne Rich's post-Holocaust confession and the limits of identification 50 ANN KENISTON 4 'Your story. My story': confessional writing and the case of ...
... poetics of the "real" ' looks back to the confessional poetry of the 1950s in her nuanced analysis of the dynamics of modern confessionalism. She argues that, while ostensibly the site in which 'truth' about the self is asserted ...
... Poets (1973) - itself exemplary of widespread critical tendencies in the first part of the period covered by this ... poet' and insists finally that it displays 'moral courage' (Phillips 1973: 16-17), the essays included below indicate ...
... Poetics', Review of English Studies 55 (220): 425-45. Gilmore, L. (1994) Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of ... Poets, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Reik, T. (1961) The Compulsion to Confess: On the Psychoanalysis of ...
... poets have their own photographic images placed on their front dust jackets, but most editions of The Bell Jar and The ... poetic voice exhibited in the last poems', but also 'in her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1998: 10). Other ...
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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 |