Compelling confessions
Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure / [electronic resource] :
edited by Suzanne Diamond.
- Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
- 230 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein -- Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond -- Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller -- Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger -- From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski -- Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Confession in literature.
Self-disclosure in literature.
Autobiography.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Confession--Political aspects.
Self-disclosure--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
PS228.C63 / C66 2011eb
810.9/353
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein -- Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond -- Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller -- Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger -- From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski -- Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Confession in literature.
Self-disclosure in literature.
Autobiography.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Confession--Political aspects.
Self-disclosure--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
PS228.C63 / C66 2011eb
810.9/353