'Confessional' Writing and the

Far from being a unique, defining property of the confessional poets, confessionalism is a central trope of American literature. This book examines confessional writing not as a private, apolitical art, but rather one that demonstrates an engagement with the politics of literary influence, of gender relations, and of American culture more broadly.

MIRANDA SHERWIN received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, USA.She has written articles and book reviews on diverse topics such as film, feminist pedagogy, autobiography and poetry and has taught Women's Studies at Rutgers University and the College of Staten Island, USA. She is currently at work on a new book entitled Women on the Verge: Female Depression in Film and Literature.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Anne Sexton, Confession, and the Autobiographical Fallacy
John Berryman and Psychoanalytic Poetics
The Madwoman in the Asylum: The Confessional Writer and the Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination
Madness and the Confessional Paradigm
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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'Confessional' Writing and the Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination

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