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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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically | 11 |
Plath Sexton Berryman Lowell Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of the Real | 33 |
Adrienne Richs PostHolocaust Confession and the Limits of Identification | 50 |
Confessional Writing and the Case of Birthday Letters | 67 |
Confessing PostFeminism | 84 |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | 100 |
7 Truth Confession and the PostApartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebeles The Cry of Winnie Mandela | 115 |
The Resistant Confessions of Bobby Baker | 137 |
Confessions of Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness | 154 |
Turning the Subject Inside Out | 166 |
Reading the Abu Ghraib Archive | 180 |
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