Troubling Confessions Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature

Name: Troubling Confessions Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
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ISBN: 9780226075860

ISBN-10: 0226075869

ISBN-13: 9780226075860

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter Brooks

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The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows, and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst's office. Yet we are also deeply uneasy with the concept: how can we tell whether a confession is true? What if it has been coerced? In Troubling Confessions, Peter Brooks juxtaposes cases from 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," yet it has also seen a need to…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including "Henry James Goes to Paris" (Princeton), "Reading for the Plot", "Psychoanalysis and Storytelling", and "Troubling Confessions". He is also the author of two novels, "The Emperor's Body" and "World Elsewhere".



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Storytelling without Fear? The Confession Problem



Confessor and Confessant



The Overborne Will--A Case Study



Confession, Selfhood, and the Religious Tradition



The Culture of Confession, Therapy, and the Law



The Confessional Imagination


Notes


Index