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1038088
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b792458
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| Title & Author
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Modern confessional writing : : new critical essays /\ edited by Jo Gill.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2006.
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;; 2
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1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
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020344924X
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: 1134299788
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: 1280377488
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: 6610377480
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: 9780203449240
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: 9781134299782
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: 9781280377488
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: 9786610377480
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0415339693
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9780415339698
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Confession in literature.
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Confession-- History-- 20th century.
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Confession-- History-- 21st century.
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature.
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Confession in literature.
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Confession.
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English literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/353
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| LC Classification
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PS228.C63M63 2006eb
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| Added Entry
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Gill, Jo,1965-
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