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001 2010009600
003 DLC
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008 100316s2011 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010009600
020 $a9781611470420 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS228.C63$bC66 2011
082 00 $a810.9/353$222
245 00 $aCompelling confessions :$bthe politics of personal disclosure /$cedited by Suzanne Diamond.
260 $aMadison, NJ :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$cc2011.
300 $a230 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword: 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aConfession in literature.
650 0 $aSelf-disclosure in literature.
650 0 $aAutobiography.
650 0 $aTruthfulness and falsehood in literature.
650 0 $aConfession$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aSelf-disclosure$xPolitical aspects.
700 1 $aDiamond, Suzanne,$d1957-