| Description |
viii, 196 p. |
| Series |
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2 |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| 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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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Confession -- History -- 20th century.
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Confession -- History -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gill, Jo, 1965-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0415339693 (hardback) |
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9780415339698 (hardback) |
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