Troubling Confessions

Troubling Confessions
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0226075850
ISBN-13 : 9780226075853
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Download or read book Troubling Confessions written by Peter Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."--BOOK JACKET.


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