Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature Book

Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature, The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows, and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature

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Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
Written by author Peter Brooks
Published by University of Chicago Press, October 2001
The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows, and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst
"A book so rich in fresh ideas that I found myself underlining as madly as an undergraduate."-Richard Lourie, New York Times Book ReviewConfession, Peter Brooks writes, is "one of the most complex and obscure forms of human speech and behavior,"

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Storytelling without Fear? The Confession Problem 8
2 Confessor and Confessant 35
3 The Overborne Will--A Case Study 65
4 Confession, Selfhood, and the Religious Tradition 88
5 The Culture of Confession, Therapy, and the Law 113
6 The Confessional Imagination 144
Notes 173
Index 195

Title: Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature

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Art Institute of Chicago

Item Number: 9780226075860

Publication Date: October 2001

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Interesting treatment of the role of guilt and confession in literature but it focused too much on the legal aspect of it instead of the literature. Fell a little shot of really good

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	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Storytelling without Fear? The Confession Problem	8
2	Confessor and Confessant	35
3	The Overborne Will--A Case Study	65
4	Confession, Selfhood, and the Religious Tradition	88
5	The Culture of Confession, Therapy, and the Law	113
6	The Confessional Imagination	144
	Notes	173
	Index	195