Male confessions : intimate revelations and the religious imagination /

Male confessions : intimate revelations and the religious imagination /

Krondorfer examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. He examines writings that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krondorfer, Björn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Confession in literature.
Christian literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity.
RELIGION > Christianity > Literature & the Arts.
RELIGION > General.
Confession in literature
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity
confession (genre littéraire) > homme (masculin) > littérature religieuse > sexe (genre)
homme (masculin) > littérature personnelle > religiosité > sexe (genre)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: male confessions
  • Interlude: on mirrors
  • The confines of male confessions: on ancient vainglory and the postmodern gaze
  • Interlude: on testimony
  • Non-absent bodies and moral agency: confessions of an African bishop and a Jewish ghetto policeman
  • A perpetrator and his hagiographer: Oswald Pohl's confession
  • Interlude: on tears
  • Sons of tears: displacing the intimate (female) other
  • Not from my lips: from annihilation to nation building
  • On spirit and sperm: eroticizing God, sanctifying the body
  • Outlook: the power to name oneself into being.

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