LEADER 03932nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910456697103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-16350-0 010 $a9786613163509 010 $a1-61147-043-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040480 035 $a(EBL)730747 035 $a(OCoLC)741492726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535250 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333867 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535250 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520170 035 $a(PQKB)11310535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC730747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL730747 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483533 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316350 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040480 100 $a20100316d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCompelling confessions$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of personal disclosure /$fedited by Suzanne Diamond 210 $aMadison, N.J. $cFairleigh Dickinson University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61147-042-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword: 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. 330 $aCompelling 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 con 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aConfession in literature 606 $aSelf-disclosure in literature 606 $aAutobiography 606 $aTruthfulness and falsehood in literature 606 $aConfession$xPolitical aspects 606 $aSelf-disclosure$xPolitical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aConfession in literature. 615 0$aSelf-disclosure in literature. 615 0$aAutobiography. 615 0$aTruthfulness and falsehood in literature. 615 0$aConfession$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aSelf-disclosure$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a810.9/353 701 $aDiamond$b Suzanne$f1957-$0932300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456697103321 996 $aCompelling confessions$92097748 997 $aUNINA