The Personal, the Political, and the Confessional: Confessional Poetry and the Truth of the Body, 1959 to 2014

The power of Confessional poetry derives in large part from its reputation for telling the truth. Indeed, the very term “confessional” indicates the genre’s status as a discourse of truth. Recent scholarship on Confessional poetry has focused on revealing how the genre is not as authentic or truthfu...

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Other Authors: Perfetti-Oates, Natalie (author)
Format: Others
Language:English
English
Published: Florida State University
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Online Access:http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Sp_Perfetti_fsu_0071E_14505