confessionalist

American  

[kuhn-fesh-uh-nl-ist] / kənˈfɛʃ ə nl ɪst /

noun

1. a person who confesses in or as if in a confessional.

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Etymology

Origin of confessionalist

First recorded in 1820–30; confessional + -ist

Example Sentences

One of her favorite poets is a famed confessionalist, Sylvia Plath.

From Washington Times

In doing so he reduces Roth to the most literal kind of confessionalist, a charge his subject strenuously protested; in 1984, he sat for a Paris Review interview largely to dispel the notion that he was a confessional writer.

From New York Times

What’s remarkable is the way that her persona itself obscures this—the way that her aura of authenticity makes people think that she’s a confessionalist when she is working through character and the manipulation of craft.

From The New Yorker

The mania for physical perfection, the aversion to the reality of aging and death, the belief in a kind of identity politics that hinges on deliberate avoidance of the structural foundations of empire, the prevalence of narcissist/confessionalist expression in all the arts and creative endeavors, the constant self-justification in the form of demonizing various deplorables — all these urges seem to me typical of the irrational, anti-Enlightenment, conspiratorial mindset of what we might call the contemporary alternative left, or alt-left.

From Salon

It talks about the problem of being labelled a confessionalist, as she often is, when in fact you’re attempting something much more nuanced and generous, something outward-looking rather than navel-gazing.

From The New Yorker