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Orange Coast College - Fall 2012 | ||
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Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (1st Edition) by Peter Brooks Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-226-07586-9 / 0226075869 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07586-0 / 9780226075860 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 |