Modern confessional writing : new critical essays
Title:
Modern confessional writing : new critical essays
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edited by Jo Gill.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 196 pages).
ISBN:
9780203449240
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UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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Print version record.