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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... suggests that a similar critical distance - a sense of the mode's impossibility - is regrettably absent in testimony theory. In the topical and polemical essay which closes the collection, 'How we confess now: reading the Abu Ghraib ...
... suggests, generate a loss of faith in authority and society, and a retreat to the inner self. For Deborah Nelson, it is not possible to consider modern confessional writing without also contemplating the cold war culture into which it ...
... suggests that 'there are no barriers of subject matter' and 'no barriers between the reader and poet' and insists finally that it displays 'moral courage' (Phillips 1973: 16-17), the essays included below indicate that the opposite is ...
... suggests that confession 'invadefs] both fictional and nonfictional space' (2002: 58) while Mary McCabe indicts it for stimulating an 'unhealthy curiosity' in the reader (1998: 28). Many of the texts examined in this book share a ...
... suggests, before the book is even opened, that the contents are not fiction or poetry, but memoir or autobiography: the authoritative tale of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath.1 What may appear more surprising is that the premise of Plath's ...
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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 |