03373oam 2200637I 450 991045803690332120200520144314.01-134-29978-81-280-37748-897866103774800-203-44924-X10.4324/9780203449240 (OCoLC)65532107(MiAaPQ)EBC256904(Au-PeEL)EBL256904(CaPaEBR)ebr10163712(CaONFJC)MIL37748(OCoLC)475972070(EXLCZ)99100000000035989820180706d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrModern confessional writing new critical essays /edited by Jo GillLondon ;New York :Routledge,2006.1 online resource (208 p.)Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-415-54414-9 0-415-33969-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;2.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismConfession in literatureEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismConfessionHistory20th centuryConfessionHistory21st centuryElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Confession in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.ConfessionHistoryConfessionHistory810.9/353Gill Jo1965-856246MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458036903321Modern confessional writing1911863UNINA