The Art of Confession by Christopher Grobe PAPERBACK 9781479882083

The Art of Confession\nby Christopher Grobe\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Grobe\nTitle: The Art of Confession\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: The arts: general topics\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479882083\nISBN-10: 1479882089\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe story of a new style of artand a new way of lifein postwar America: confessionalism. \nWhat do midcentury confessional poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar America, artists like these forged a new way of being in the world. Identity became a kind of workalways ongoing, never completeto be performed on.