confessionalism
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Origin of confessionalism
First recorded in 1875–80; confessional + -ism
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In those days, it did not occur to much of the world to question Salinger’s choices, or to imagine that Maynard’s honesty might constitute not simply confessionalism but a brash kind of courage.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019
But she did bring some of the confessionalism of the literary memoir and the ground-level emotional naturalism of mumblecore cinema into serial television.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017
They wrote passionate and urgent songs that eschewed the rote, damselish confessionalism that rock music still too often expects of female artists.
From Slate • Oct. 20, 2014
Whether on blogs or Facebook, in tweets or poems, what matters in confessionalism is not the dirty or trivial detail itself but the writing of it.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012
Among his youthful hearers he found open infidelity, rationalism, the doctrines of Schleiermacher, Pietism, confessionalism, in one word, each class was a miniature copy of the Protestant world around.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various
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