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- catalog abstract ""In Troubling Confessions, Peter Brooks juxtaposes law and literature to explore the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. For centuries the law has considered confession to be "the queen of proofs," but it has also seen a need to regulate confessions and the circumstances under which they are made, as evidenced in the continuing debate over the Miranda decision. Western culture has made confessional speech a prime measure of authenticity, seeing it as an expression of selfhood that bears witness to personal truth. Yet the urge to confess may be motivated by inextricable layers of shame, guilt, self-loathing, and the desire to propitiate figures of authority. Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11549117.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In Troubling Confessions, Peter Brooks juxtaposes law and literature to explore the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. For centuries the law has considered confession to be "the queen of proofs," but it has also seen a need to regulate confessions and the circumstances under which they are made, as evidenced in the continuing debate over the Miranda decision. Western culture has made confessional speech a prime measure of authenticity, seeing it as an expression of selfhood that bears witness to personal truth. Yet the urge to confess may be motivated by inextricable layers of shame, guilt, self-loathing, and the desire to propitiate figures of authority. Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Storytelling without fear? The confession problem -- 2. Confessor and confessant -- 3. The overborne will -- a case stuy -- 4. Confession, selfhood, and the religious tradition -- 5. The culture of confession, therapy and the law -- 6. The confessional imagination.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-193) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 207 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226075850 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.93353 21".
- catalog subject "Confession (Law)".
- catalog subject "Confession in literature.".
- catalog subject "Confession.".
- catalog subject "PN56.C67 B76 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Storytelling without fear? The confession problem -- 2. Confessor and confessant -- 3. The overborne will -- a case stuy -- 4. Confession, selfhood, and the religious tradition -- 5. The culture of confession, therapy and the law -- 6. The confessional imagination.".
- catalog title "Troubling confessions : speaking guilt in law & literature / Peter Brooks.".
- catalog type "text".