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.
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