The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
by
Christopher Grobe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism.
What 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...