Product Description: Explores why it matters that texts exist in the form of stories, and how they rest upon cultural and social assumptions (how narratives are always ideological).

Product Description: Has Western man, to quote Foucault, become a confessing animal? Drawing on new critical theory, deconstruction and psychoanalysis, this study argues that the impulse to confess produces people as subjects with the need to narrate and lay bare the secrets of their lives and to define themselves in relation to their sexuality and to a presumed norm...read more