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Modern Confessional Writing : New Critical Essays by Jo Gill (2005, Hardcover)
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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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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415339693
ISBN-139780415339698
eBay Product ID (ePID)45574810
Product Key Features
Book TitleModern Confessional Writing : New Critical Essays
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLetters, Christianity / Catholic, General, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2005
GenreLiterary Criticism, Religion, Literary Collections
AuthorJo Gill
Book SeriesRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2005-004158
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberVol. 2
Dewey Decimal810.9/353
Table Of ContentIntroduction. Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically. Confessing the Body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of the 'Real'. 'To Feel with a Human Stranger': Adrienne Rich's Post-Holocaust Confession and the Limits of Identification. 'Your Story. My Story': Confessional Writing and the Case of Birthday Letters. Bridget Jones's Diary: Confessing Post-Feminism. 'The Memoir as Self-Destruction': A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela. Personal Performances: The Resistant Confessions of Bobby Baker. Death Sentences: Confessions of Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness. Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony: Turning the Subject Inside Out. How We Confess Now: Reading the Abu Ghraib Archive. Index
SynopsisA 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., Night, for most of human history, has been feared and maligned. Daytime's dark, secret sister is a time for staying in and saying prayers to ward off whatever evils lurk in its sunless corridors. And yet, darkness is revered as the almost universal murk from which life arose. Night brings together an international roster of writers who explore the many faces of night: its myths, its flora and fauna, its human side, too. Galileo ruminates on the moon over Florence, following its path through one of the first telescopes. In the desert, Annie Dillard seeks a total eclipse of the sun. Gretel Ehrlich writes from Greenland, contemplating the months-long Arctic night, while Tim O'Brien makes his way through the deadly nightlife of Vietnam. Bats and fireflies, a writhing confluence of alligators, the shape of a garden in the dark this anthology reflects both the terrors and the inimitable beauties of the night., "Modern Confessional Writing" offers the first comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays in this collection take as their subject confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, including 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 in most cases critique - conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary confession, and its assumed relationship to truth authority and subjectivity are challenged, in their place a range of critical perspectives and practices are adopted, utilizing the insights of contemporary critical theorists. "Modern Confessional Writing "develops and tests new, theoretically-informed perspectives 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 it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.
LC Classification NumberPS228.C63M63 2005
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