Modern confessional writing
Subtitle: new critical essays
By: edited by Jo Gill.
Contributors: Gill, Jo, 1965-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Confession in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Confession -- History -- 20th century; Confession -- History -- 21st century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Dangerous confessions : the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically / Tracy Brain; title: 2. Confessing the body : Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the "real" / Elizabeth Gregory; title: 3. "To feel with a human stranger" : Adrienne Rich's post-holocaust confession and the limits of identification / Ann Keniston; title: 4. "Your story. My story" : confessional writing and the case of birthday letters / Jo Gill; title: 5. Bridget Jones's diary : confessing post-feminism / Leah Guenther; title: 6. "The memoir as self-destruction" : a heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Bran Nicol; title: 7. Truth, confession, and the post-apartheid Black consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The cry of Winnie Mandela / Yianna Liatsos; title: 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; title: 10. Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony : turning the subject inside out / Susannah Radstone.