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... knowledge of the Russian language.” This document, the novel’s central embedded narrative, is a confessional writing composed by the Russian student-turned-spy-turned double-agent, Razumov. 79Twentieth-Century Literature 59.1 Spring 2013 79 Nicole Rizzuto The opening confession...

...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill s Early Poetry Timothy Materer You know, this guy’s got a secret, and he’s gonna keep it. —Arthur Miller to Dylan Thomas about James Merrill...

...” (88). In both respects I would disagree with Hutcheon. Confession, unlike much other modern poetry, has not been entirely liberated from this “myth of the instru­ mentality of language.” The language of the confessional text continues often to be read as “transitive and referential...

...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...

... reason both illustrates and exceeds the argument Foucault advances about the relationship between confession and sexual discourse. For while Nancy’s desire for Edward is transformed into a confession of sexual readiness and while Edward’s desire for Nancy is transformed into a refusal of her confessional...

... and bagmen, the Spellacy brothers cannot ultimately “fix” anything so much as tell their secret or buried tales. And thus the endpoint of True Confessions , as well, points to the particular contribution Dunne’s novel can make to our understanding of closure in Noir nonfiction and the confessional...

..., the complex manner in which a reader will interpret a confessional discourse will still depend on his or her historical and cultural context. And whereas Foucault focuses on confession in the psychiatrist’s office and the confessional, William Burroughs’s early works, especially Naked Lunch, expose...

... of the speaker’s intellectual mastery. As the above examples suggest, whether or not the confession is motivated by a conscious intention to deceive and whether or not the confessed material corresponds precisely to fact, the self-disclosing ges­ ture that marks confessional speech also...

... maudlin clichés rather than on Lolita’s collage which clearly displays Quilty as his rival.15 Lolita’s visual confessions provide supertext for her 221 Jennifer L. Jenkins mother’s confessional letter to Humbert, which is ultimately subsumed into Humbert’s narrative murder...

... to the victims of terminal cancer.” The response was “equally spontaneous—and enormous” (33) by Styron’s account. A Stonewall riots for the secretly depressed, his article expressed “no particular originality or boldness,” he confesses, yet “the overwhelming reaction made me feel that inadvertently I had...

... ate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal. He is not a gentleman. (5) Those inclined to skip prefatory remarks discover within three short para­ graphs that the narrator’s obsession is a diminutive (“four...

... dynamic between penitent and confessor is reversed in the confessional moment. As Sandra Lee Bartky explains, in Foucauldian terms, confession “unfolds within an inegalitar- ian relationship, for one confesses to another who has authority not only to require the confession but also to determine...

... Attridge have read the epistolary and confessional structure in Age of Iron through the work of Emmanuel Levinas, observing that Levinas’s theorization of responsibil- ity to the other illuminates both Elizabeth Curren’s act of writing at her historical moment and her relationship with Mr...

... entreats a boy taken prisoner by Colonel Joll to confess: “Listen: you must tell the officer the truth. That is all he wants to hear from you—the truth. Once he is sure you are telling the truth he will not hurt you. But you must tell him everything you know” (7). Although he intends to help...

.... This volume of letters gives evidence that Eliot himself was often confused or uncertain as to where he stood in relation to these same metaphysical, or religious, concerns. At one point, he confesses to the proudly skeptical John Middleton Murry, “Your point of view is so much your own, and my own...

... and original verses, satirical anecdotes, and confessions about what Merrill in “Days of 1964” and Byron in Don Juan called the “illusion” of love. Like Byron’s, Merrill’s letters express a sense of place and the immediacy of his life. He begins a letter by describing his partner David Jackson “upstairs...

... . “ Autobiography and Confession .” In Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews , edited by Attwell David , 243 – 50 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Coetzee J. M. 1992b . “ Confession and Double Thoughts: Tolstoy, Rousseau, and Dostoevsky .” In Doubling the Point: Essays...

... room, and yet is deemed “a living mass of corruption” (137). As Stephen progresses toward confession, the soul acquires a split agency and embodiment that terrifies Stephen: But does that part of the body understand or what? The serpent, the most subtle beast of the field . . . Who...

... of Argument and the Danger of Parody in the Four Quartets dismissed as “attempts to break up [Eliot’s] splendid incantations with pas­ sages of the prosiest of prose” (“Mr.T. S. Eliot’s Confession” 34), leading to the conclusion that “[p]oetry is worn out,” a relic, even an embalmed corpse. Karl Shapiro...

... confession,” and that this “was true even, indeed especially, of major modernists who turned their back on representation altogether.” No doubt such a sweeping claim can be supported by invoking the work of artists who, like Beckmann, were drawn to self-portraiture, or very dif­ ferent kinds...