...Ellen Stenstrom Abstract This article brings together two literary icons of personal “confessional” writing, Sylvia Plath and Margery Kempe, to examine—among their other uncanny transhistorical similarities—the way in which both women consciously self-fashioned their personhoods...

..., and with the m e­ diation of high rhetoric; Do N ot Go Gentle Into This Good N ight is a clear exam ple o f this. It rem ained for later poets, particularly the Beats and the Confessional poets, to strip the individual darkness with an anguished personal reportage. In com parison with Lowell or Berryman (who...

...James Simpson Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 C o nfessing L iterature J a m e s S im p s o n nf the 1970s witnessed a politicization of literary studies, the first decade of the pres­ ent century m ight be about to witness a confessionalization o f literary...

... by remarks made by each of the characters involved in torm enting Olivia s steward. W hen Maria categorizes him as sometimes a kind of puri­ tan, Sir Andrew Aguecheek immediately takes up the cry, threat­ ening to beat him for his sectarianism, while Sir Toby Belch repeats the confessional label: Mar. Sir...

... of their embodied reality. Taste-formations of criticism are very much alive in our project. For instance, the "confes­ sional" often appeared as an in-joke in conversations, a touchstone o f "the other" to exper­ imental practice.The ability to make jokes about it shows how degraded "confessional" has become...

... the narrative techniques of Díaz’s autobiographical narrator, Yunior, to his confessional essay “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” (2018), Ruth McHugh-Dillon foregrounds the “uneasy intimacy” Díaz creates as he entwines an apology and a confession, and how he eludes dialogue in favor of monologue. 7...

... geography, forces of regulation, and social and economic lines o f division.This London was both an active agent and a terrain of knowledge and discipline. Here w hat Frank M ort has suggested as the W olfenden Committee's "w ill to knowledge" and its confessional mecha­ nism s the middle-class emphasis...

... ignoring the heterogeneity of either. What would religious traditions of the Mediterranean look like when observed through the lens of an ecological biome? What shared challenges and adaptations would emerge? Several factors of the local religious “ecology” come to mind, such as confessional self...

... confessional debates vexing Shakespeare's w orld ("o ld" historicism) or 14 8 E n g l is h La n g u a g e N o t e s 44.1 S pring 2 0 0 6 on the colonial politics of conversion and circumcision ("new " historicism).The religious turn as I arn conceiving it w ould take ä different iack. How Shyiocks conversion...

... of the artist rem ains visible, yet does not dictate the content o f the art. Poetry-ing insists that w e listen beyond the confessional to voices speak­ ing from undeniable bodies. M ary Klages U niversity of Colorado Boulder NOTES 1 Petra Küppers, "Poetry-ing: Feminist Disability Aesthetics and Poetry...

... confessional and political boundaries. For example, al-Ḥimyarī provided a eulogy for Fernando III in a fifteenth-century Arabic-Islamic geographic dictionary. Al-Ḥimyarī notes that Fernando “was a gentle man who had political sense. It is said that when he died, he was interred in the great mosque of Seville...

... , which Psalmanazar specifically mentioned as an inspiration ( M , 217). Psalmanazar’s unflinching yet strangely complacent depiction of his own substance use and of his other addictions fundamentally changed the character of this confessional form. Psalmanazar ultimately used his long-standing...

..., between first-person autobiography and thirdperson biography. In doing so, the triography explicitly subverts various structures of authorial/authoritarian power (sycophantic hero-worship, self-aggrandizing life study, pre­ emptive confessional). "Fifty-two Genres o f Life Narrative," Sidonie Smith...

... the intersection of historical and confessional selfhood that allow them to establish personal legacy as counternarrative to patriarchal legacy. Stenstrom struggles with her own role as literary scholar in Plath’s legacy who might “resurrect and amplify” her voice. As I consider my own genesis in the context...

... called 'confessional' by others, labeled as Im pure, Im m ature, o r negative. We noted the m lsogynistic, classist, racist and ableist assum ptions that seem ed to feed these dism issa ls."22 M any w o u ld have us believe to reveal one's pain in p u b lic runs the g a m u t fro m im p o lite to s e lf...

...) but assembled sometime after Horace’s self-obliteration. Thus, while Jimmy does not help Horace during his own confessional coming out, he is haunted by his memory. McRuer reads this haunting at length as the queer transformation of Horace into a version of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “signifying monkey”—a “queer...

... of Mueller’s transformation is Heshel’s confessional biography or an invention. However, Michael is so quickly convinced that his apparently “relentlessly Hebraic” father, whose house is full of “innumerable tchotchkes ” and who constituted a “one-man Jewish National Fund,” is in fact a former Nazi that any...

... methods. He dismisses vampire lore as superstitious “magic,” substitutes hypodermic needles for fangs, masters the use of electronic technologies (the automatic garage-door opener, the telephone), and even dabbles quite successfully in mass media exposure (his confessional calls to a late-night talk radio...

... thinking h ere less o f confessional experience . . . than o f an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, to any confession whatever . . . I wanted non-knowledge to be its principle . . . experience is, in its fever and anguish, the putting into question (to the test) that which a man knows...

... the lyric, turning to historicized personae instead o f the confessional disclosure that has become associated w ith late tw entieth-century poetry by w om en, as it reconfigures narra­ tive through these approaches. The collection opens w ith tw o epigraphs, one from Toni M orrison, which addresses...