Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
by Peter Brooks
In Troubling Confessions, Peter Brooks examines the ways guilt is spoken and understood in law and literature. This interdisciplinary study considers confession as an expressive act and a source of interpretation, offering a thoughtful exploration of how language, judgment, and responsibility intersect.
About This Book
Troubling Confessions explores the relationship between confession, guilt, law, and literature.
Peter Brooks considers how speaking guilt can shape interpretation and understanding in different cultural forms.
Bringing legal and literary perspectives together, the book examines confession as both an act of expression and a subject of analysis.
It offers readers an interdisciplinary approach to the meanings and implications of confessed guilt.
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