| Description |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Confessions of the Critics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Case for Confessional Criticism; I. Is It Okay to Read Subjectively?; 1. Autobiographical Literary Criticism as the New Belletrism: Personal Experience; 2. Mourning Shakespeare: My Own Private Hamlet; 3. Interrupted Reading: Personal Criticism in the Present Time; 4. Autocritique; 5. What Is at Stake in Confessional Criticism; 6. Confession versus Criticism, or What's the Critic Got to Do with It?; 7. Through the Academic Looking Glass |
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8. Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiographical CriticismII. How Can a Critic Create a Self?; 9. Self-Interview; 10. Critical Personifications; 11. Overcoming ""Auction Block"": Stories Masquerading as Objects; 12. Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood; 13. The MLA President's Column; 14. Me and Not Me: The Narrator of Critical and Historical Fiction; 15. Writing in Concert: An Interview with Cathy Davidson, Alice Kaplan, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick; 16. White-Boy Authenticity; III. Just Do It!; 17. Life as We Know It; 18. Lives; 19. Laos Is Open; 20. Damaged Goods |
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21. Junctions on the Color Line22. ""Why Am I Always the Bad Guy?"": A Reverie on the Virtues of Confession; 23. Let's Get Lost; Contributors |
| Summary |
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317971511 |
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1317971515 |
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