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Compelling Confessions : the Politics of Personal Disclosure.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.