Modern confessional writing new critical essays / edited by Jo Gill.

Other author Gill, Jo, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionviii, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

SeriesRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2
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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LCCN 2005004158
ISBN0415339693 (hardback)
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