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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... story. My story': confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters 67 JO GILL 5 Bridget Jones's Diary: confessing post-feminism 84 LEAH GUENTHER 6 'The memoir as self-destruction': A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1 00 ...
... story. My story": confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters' (Chapter 4) reads Hughes's book as an exemplary confessional text in its profound self-consciousness. It argues that it is the process and difficulties of ...
... stories which is crucial to, for example, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions (1781) (a text which is interesting not simply as a self- authorized account of one man's failings but as an early exemplar of the strategies of evasion ...
... stories — than Sylvia Plath. Biographies of Plath, which take many different forms, have done much to promote her as a confessional writer. But as John Sutherland writes, 'Every biography, even the most exhaustively researched, will be ...
... story 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'. Others have been more self-conscious in their claim that Plath is writing about herself. Anne Stevenson's reading of 'Lady Lazarus' is typical. She sees it as one of three poems whose ...
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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 |