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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... response to this impasse, she proposes a new critical practice appropriate to the demands of the contemporary form. Susannah Radstone's 'Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony: turning the subject inside out' traces the emergence ...
... response from students, but such a way of reading is seriously flawed. Stewart's assertion of 'half-truths' and the desire to present things 'as you want' rather than 'as they actually are or were' is at the root of the problem. Janet ...
... response to the Wevills' visit: 'For the first time . . . Sylvia was using her own husband and offspring for material in a confessional way' (1989: 244). Both poems are certainly about the strains and difficulty of relationships. Yet ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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 |