| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Compelling Confessions; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Confession as an Uncontrolled Substance: An Introduction; Scripted Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Disclosure; Personal Disclosure and Public Disclosure in Creative Nonfiction; Escaping the Panopticon: Vision and Visibility in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel; Confessional Poetry and National Identity: John Berryman's Self as Nation; Oprah on the Couch: Franzen, Frey, Foucault, and the Book Club Confessions; Understanding the False-Confession Phenomenon |
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Rhetoric's Inescapable Grasp: Strategic Disclosure and the Moment of TruthWaiting Tables, Writing Lives: The ''Truth'' of Personal Experience in Students' Academic Writing; From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom; Sister Confessor: The Selection and Shaping of Testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman Bangarang and Lionheart Gal; The Vagina Posse: Confessional Community in Online Infertility Journals; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to thiscollection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called "reality" and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Confession.
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Confession in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
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Confession
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Confession in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611470437 |
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1611470439 |
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