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The Art of Confession : The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV /
The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Performance and American Cultures ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Interlude: The unbearable whiteness of being confessional
- 1. The breath of a poem: confessional print/performance circa 1959
- 2. Self- consciousness raising: the style of self- performance in the 1970s
- 3. Just talk: writing, media, and confessional monologue in the 1980s
- 4. Broadcast yourself: the confessional performance of reality tv
- Coda: confession in the age of aggregation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author