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Modern confessional writing :

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020344924X

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1134299788

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9781134299782

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9781280377488

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9786610377480

Erroneous ISBN

0415339693

Erroneous ISBN

9780415339698

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b792458

Title Proper

Modern confessional writing :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

new critical essays /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jo Gill.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)

Series Title

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;

Volume Designation

2

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

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.

Title

Modern confessional writing.

International Standard Book Number

0415339693

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Confession-- History-- 20th century.

Confession-- History-- 21st century.

Confession in literature.

English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

American literature.

Confession in literature.

Confession.

English literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

LIT-- 004020

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Book number

Gill, Jo,1965-

Date of Transaction

20201207054320.0

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