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Author:

Sherwin, Miranda, 1963-

Title:

"Confessional" writing and the twentieth-century literary imagination / Miranda Sherwin.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 214 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Confession in literature.
Autobiography in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
American literature--20th century--Themes, motives.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- "Lost connections" : Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and the confessional poetics of the Beats.

ISBN:

023021956X
9780230219564

OCLC:

(OCoLC)436028368

LCCN:

2011012474

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)