"Modern Confessional Writing" offers the first comprehensive and
scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays
in this collection take as their subject confessional literature
from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, including 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 in most cases critique - conventional readings of
confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary
confession, and its assumed relationship to truth authority and
subjectivity are challenged, in their place a range of critical
perspectives and practices are adopted, utilizing the insights of
contemporary critical theorists. "Modern Confessional Writing
"develops and tests new, theoretically-informed perspectives 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 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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