"Confessional" writing and the twentieth-century literary imagination
By: Miranda Sherwin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780230219564
Subjects: Confession in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Autobiography in literature; American poetry; Psychoanalysis in literature; Mental illness in literature; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anne Sexton, confession, and the autobiographical fallacy; title: John Berryman and psychoanalytic poetics; title: The madwoman in the asylum : the confessional writer and the twentieth-century literary imagination; title: Madness and the confessional paradigm; title: "Lost connections" : Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and the confessional poetics of the Beats.