Gendered Discourse In The Confessionalists And The New Journalists

It focuses on identifying the similarities and differences in the way male and female authors describe male and female characters and in the way they narrate selective events in their works. This study also identifies how the male and female authors from this time period assign or remove power to or from the characters about whom they write.

The primary writers evaluated in this study are Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Joan Didion.