Modern Confessional Writing

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415339698
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Confessional Writing written by Jo Gill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113429977X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Confessional Writing written by Jo Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134299788
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Confessional Writing written by Jo Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that provide a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

Author : Christopher Grobe
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479882089
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Confession written by Christopher Grobe and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --

Author : Paula Hayes
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781433115240
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice written by Paula Hayes and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: <I>Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet's early works, such as <I>Land of Unlikeness and <I>Lord Weary's Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell's early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell's early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in <I>Life Studies; however, instead of Lowell's early poetry being eclipsed by <I>Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowell's evolution as a poet. The early poetry provides readers and scholars of Lowell with a Puritan paradigm and the ethos of an American narrative that Lowell never fully abandons but only perpetually deconstructs.

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530963
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Studies and For the Union Dead written by Robert Lowell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.

Author : Brooke Conti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209214
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England written by Brooke Conti and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. John Milton famously interrupts his arguments against episcopacy with autobiographical accounts of his poetic hopes and dreams, while John Donne's attempts to describe his conversion from Catholicism wind up obscuring rather than explaining. Similar moments appear in the works of Thomas Browne, John Bunyan, and the two King Jameses themselves. These autobiographies are familiar enough that their peculiarities have frequently been overlooked in scholarship, but as Brooke Conti notes, they sit uneasily within their surrounding material as well as within the conventions of confessional literature that preceded them. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England positions works such as Milton's political tracts, Donne's polemical and devotional prose, Browne's Religio Medici, and Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners as products of the era's tense political climate, illuminating how the pressures of public self-declaration and allegiance led to autobiographical writings that often concealed more than they revealed. For these authors, autobiography was less a genre than a device to negotiate competing political, personal, and psychological demands. The complex works Conti explores provide a privileged window into the pressures placed on early modern religious identity, underscoring that it was no simple matter for these authors to tell the truth of their interior life—even to themselves.

Author : Kate Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Confession written by Kate Sontag and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how poems have been used as autobiographies throughout time.

Author : Olena Kalytiak Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582343527
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shattered Sonnets Love Cards and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities written by Olena Kalytiak Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems draws on everything from nursery rhymes to the classics to reveal the poetry hidden within ordinary speech.

Author : Irene Gammel
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322534
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessional Politics written by Irene Gammel and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of Confessional Politics is that in this confessional age, "telling all is in." From a unique variety of perspectives and angles, the essays in this collection explore the association of confession with femininity; they examine its function as a gender-specific discourse as they probe its many feminized genres and subgenres. Confessional Politics investigates the creative and strategic ways in which women shape the telling of their sexual stories in order to resist and negotiate the confessional practices designed to position them in conventional sexual frameworks. Investigating the confessional politics of traditional forms of social life writing (including erotic diaries, journals, letters, and confessional fiction), this book significantly expands its focus beyond conventional forms to include practices affecting mass readerships and audiences. The collection addresses provocative general topics: talk shows, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexuality, self-help books, and cross-dressing, as well as expressive works such as contemporary Canadian women's poetry, lesbian fiction, performance art, Anne Frank's recently released complete diary, and memoirs.