| Description |
230 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein -- Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond -- Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller -- Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger -- From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski -- Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Confession in literature.
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Self-disclosure in literature.
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Autobiography.
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Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
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Confession -- Political aspects.
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Self-disclosure -- Political aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Diamond, Suzanne, 1957-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780838642658 (alk. paper) |
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9781611470420 |
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9781611470437 (electronic bk.) |
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