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The Performance and Interrogation of 'Generic Lives' and Gendered Selves in the Confessional Poetry of John Berryman and Anne Sexton

Name: The Performance and Interrogation of 'Generic Lives' and Gendered Selves in the Confessional Poetry of John Berryman and Anne Sexton
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Author: Elena Mertel
ISBN: 9783346014382

Bachelor Thesis, 2017

51 Pages, Grade: 1,3

Elena Mertel (Author)

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Content

1 Introduction

2 Theoretical Main Part
2.1 Gender Theory
2.2 Confessional Poetry
2.3 The Poet and the Woman-Poet
2.3 On America's Society, Gender Roles and Poetry in the 1950s and 60s
2.5 Biographies
2.5.1 John Berryman
2.5.2 Anne Sexton

3 Analytical Main Part
3.1 Gendered Selves in the poetry of John Berryman
3.2 Gendered Selves in the poetry of Anne Sexton
3.3 Summary

4 Conclusion

5 Works Cited

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Title: The Performance and Interrogation of 'Generic Lives' and Gendered Selves in the Confessional Poetry of John Berryman and Anne Sexton
College: University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine"
Grade: 1,3
Author: Elena Mertel (Author)
Year: 2017
Pages: 51
Catalog Number: V498158
ISBN (eBook): 9783346014375
ISBN (Book): 9783346014382
Language: English
Keywords: Anne Sexton, John Berryman, Personal is Political, poetry, suicide, gender, generic lives, confessional poetry, USA, Sixties, gender studies

Quote paper: Elena Mertel (Author), 2017, The Performance and Interrogation of 'Generic Lives' and Gendered Selves in the Confessional Poetry of John Berryman and Anne Sexton, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/498158

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