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Modern confessional writing : new critical essays
- Title
- Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / edited by Jo Gill.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Gill, Jo, 1965-
- Description
- viii, 196 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-8020
- ISBN
- 0415339693 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2005004158
- OCLC
- 57752386
- vendorOCM57752386
- Title
- Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / edited by Jo Gill.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Series
- Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Gill, Jo, 1965-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-8020