TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tell,Dave
TI  - Confessional crises and cultural politics in twentieth-century America
T2  - Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
SN  - 9780271060224
AV  - BF634 .T45 2012eb
U1  - 306.0973/0904 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - University Park, Pa.
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Confession
KW  - Psychology
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Confession and sexuality : True story versus Anthony Comstock -- Confession and class : a new True story -- Confession and race : civil rights, segregation, and the murder of Emmett Till -- Confession and violence : William Styron's Nat Turner -- Confession and religion : Jimmy Swaggart's secular confession -- Confession and democracy : Clinton, Starr, and the witch-hunt tradition of American confession -- Conclusion : James Frey and twenty-first-century confessional culture
N2  - "Examines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America's most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy"--Provided by publisher
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ER  -