How Long to Read The Confessional Turn

How Long Does it Take to Read The Confessional Turn?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read The Confessional Turn by Jeffrey Michael Clapp

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For thirty years following the Second World War, poets, novelists, playwrights, and autobiographers conceptualized their works as confessions: self-expressions audited by the new state form developing in response to perceived security threats. Confessional discourses intrinsic to the national security state, including loyalty oaths and congressional testimony, along with expressions of the state, including Voice of America broadcasts and United States Information Agency goodwill tours, not only resembled literary self-expression, but even seemed to undermine its autonomy. Expression in the presence of authority is made not only to, but also on behalf of authority, as the long history of confession (from Saint Augustine's Confessions to Whittaker Chambers', Witness) demonstrates. Although the two confessions appear to mark out mutually-exclusive stances vis-a-vis state power, both dynamics came to typify U.S. literature. Inspired by newfound cultural authority, but repelled by the attendant subordination, writers deployed personae at once identical with, and categorically distinct from, themselves. Paradoxical connections between author and speaker, author and character, or author and narrator figured the ambivalent politics of cultural workers during the Cold War period. The Confessional Turn demonstrates that when confession binds state and citizen, it also links author and audience. Hardly limited to a new confessional poetry, the confessional turn dominated literature in the United States with remarkable uniformity. Mary McCarthy responded to the evacuation of literary modernism's oppositional cultural politics by exploring both encrypted autobiographical fiction and invented memoir. The confessional scenes in Richard Wright's work, often involving police abuse of black suspects, ultimately align Wright's critique of state violence with his theory of coercive literary reception. Impasses in the public debate around the privilege against self-incrimination clarify how Vladimir Nabokov's experimental fiction enjoins its readers to anti-totalitarianism. Arthur Miller's revulsion toward political repression shapes The Crucible, but later works contemplate the collapse of the distinction between resistant and complicit political stances. Finally, Robert Lowell's late sonnet sequences, at once narcissistic and abject, describe the recursive condition of bugged subjectivity, which also beset Richard Nixon in his wired White House.

How long is The Confessional Turn?

The Confessional Turn by Jeffrey Michael Clapp is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Confessional Turn Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read The Confessional Turn aloud.

What Reading Level is The Confessional Turn?

The Confessional Turn is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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