03932nam 2200697 a 450 991045669710332120200520144314.01-283-16350-097866131635091-61147-043-9(CKB)2550000000040480(EBL)730747(OCoLC)741492726(SSID)ssj0000535250(PQKBManifestationID)11333867(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535250(PQKBWorkID)10520170(PQKB)11310535(MiAaPQ)EBC730747(Au-PeEL)EBL730747(CaPaEBR)ebr10483533(CaONFJC)MIL316350(EXLCZ)99255000000004048020100316d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCompelling confessions[electronic resource] the politics of personal disclosure /edited by Suzanne DiamondMadison, N.J. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press20111 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-042-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein -- Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond -- Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller -- Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger -- From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski -- Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells.Compelling Confessions is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in conAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismConfession in literatureSelf-disclosure in literatureAutobiographyTruthfulness and falsehood in literatureConfessionPolitical aspectsSelf-disclosurePolitical aspectsElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Confession in literature.Self-disclosure in literature.Autobiography.Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.ConfessionPolitical aspects.Self-disclosurePolitical aspects.810.9/353Diamond Suzanne1957-932300MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456697103321Compelling confessions2097748UNINA