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Spill: The Rhetoric of Confessions and Self-Revelations

PWR 1GBR - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Richardson, R.
Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

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A guide to resources for PWR 1GBR: Spill: The Rhetoric of Confessions and Self-Revelations. Course topics include: hetorical strategies of the confession; over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter; why it is important to confess to one's God, to the police, to a psychologist, to a loved one, or to an anonymous audience.

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Background/Reference sources

Encyclopedia of life writing : autobiographical and biographical forms / Margaretta Jolly, editor.
London : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
Green Library » Lane Reading Room » PR756 .B56 E53 2001 V.1
Handbook of language and social psychology / edited by Howard Giles and W. Peter Robinson.
Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, c1990.
Green Library » Information Center » P37 .H33 1990
Oxford handbook of Internet psychology / edited by Adam N. Joinson ... [et al.].
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
Green Library » Information Center » HM1017 .O94 2007

Suggested SearchWorks subject terms

Confession
Confession (Law)
Confession in literature
Identity (Psychology)
Memoirs
Self-disclosure

Suggested databases

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Abstracts and indexing provided for 8,200 journals in the collection. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.
IBSS extra [electronic resource] : the international bibliography of the social sciences.
Norwood, MA : SilverPlatter Information,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
ProQuest. Research library [electronic resource].
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004