Description: A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary act of confession and its assumed relationship to truth, authority and subjectivity are challenged, and in their place a range of new critical perspectives and practices are adopted.Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new theoretically-informed views on what confessional writing is, how it functions, and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception that it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.This is a hardcover book titled "Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays" by Jo Gill. It is a nonfiction narrative published by Routledge in 2005 as part of their Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series. The book is in English and has 196 pages. It measures 8.7 inches in length, 5.6 inches in width, and 0.7 inches in height. It weighs 16 ounces and was not modified. The book includes literary criticism, religion, and literary collections genres, and covers topics such as letters, Christianity/Catholicism, and American/European literature. It was published in the United States. Thanks for looking and happy bidding!
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Book Title: Modern Confessional Writing : New Critical Essays
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 8.7in
Publisher: Routledge
Original Language: English
Modified Item: No
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Publication Year: 2006
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Literary Movement: Modernism
Item Height: 0.7in
Author: Jo Gill
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion, Literary Collections
Topic: American / General, Christianity / Catholic, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, General, Letters, Writing
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 5.6in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 196 pgs.
