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Title

Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / edited by Jo Gill.

ISBN

020344924X

1134299788

1280377488

6610377480

9780203449240

9781134299782

9781280377488

9786610377480

0415339693

9780415339698

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description

1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)

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Notes

English.

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Summary

A collection of essays that provide a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

Variant and related titles

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Other formats

Print version: Modern confessional writing. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

August 07, 2024

Series

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Dangerous confessions : the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically / Tracy Brain

2. Confessing the body : Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the 'real' / Elizabeth Gregory

3. 'To feel with a human stranger' : Adrienne Rich's post-holocaust confession and the limits of identification / Ann Keniston

4. 'Your story. My story' : confessional writing and the case of Birthday letters / Jo Gill

5. Bridget Jones's diary : confessing post-feminism / Leah Guenther

6. 'The memoir as self-destruction' : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Bran Nicol

7. Truth, confession and the post-apartheid Black consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The cry of Winnie Mandela / Yianna Liatsos

8. Personal performances : the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker / Deirdre Heddon 9. Death sentences : confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness / Ruth Robbins

10. Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony : turning the subject inside out / Susannah Radstone

How we confess now : reading the Abu Graib archive / Leigh Gilmore.

Subjects

American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Confession in literature.

Confession > History > 20th century.

Confession > History > 21st century.

English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Also listed under

Gill, Jo, 1965-