Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / / edited by Jo Gill
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| Titolo: |
Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / / edited by Jo Gill
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Confession in literature | |
| English literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Confession - History - 20th century | |
| Confession - History - 21st century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
GillJo <1965->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modern confessional writing |
| ISBN: | 1-134-29978-8 |
| 1-280-37748-8 | |
| 9786610377480 | |
| 0-203-44924-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458036903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 2.