What is the genre called "Confessional?"
Apr. 14th, 2004 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarkagesReading through my Novel and Short Story Writer's Market, I see the recurring limitation, "No Confessionals." When I think of a 'confessional work,' I think of Augustine or Guibert of Nogent. These are models for a first person narrative which exposes hidden aspects of the self. Can this possibly be what the literary journals mean? If so, that would mean that my own first person narratives could not be sent there.
Yet, I cannot but suspect that there is some other meaning to "confessionals." The way that these journals talk about it (with disgust) is as a type of genre fiction. Can anyone point me to examples of pulp confessionals, so that I can see what they're talking about?
Yet, I cannot but suspect that there is some other meaning to "confessionals." The way that these journals talk about it (with disgust) is as a type of genre fiction. Can anyone point me to examples of pulp confessionals, so that I can see what they're talking about?
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Re: Yes, but...
Date: 2004-04-22 05:29 pm (UTC)