Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America / / Dave Tell.
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervenin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics
- 1. Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock
- 2. Confession and Class: A New True Story
- 3. Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till
- 4. Confession and Violence: William Styron’s Nat Turner
- 5. Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession
- 6. Confession and Democracy: Clinton, Starr, and the Witch-Hunt Tradition of American Confession
- Conclusion: James Frey and Twenty-First-Century Confessional Culture
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index