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Author Krondorfer, Björn

Title Male confessions : intimate revelations and the religious imagination / Björn Krondorfer
Male confessions : intimate revelations and the religious imagination / Bjγ̐ưorn Krondorfer
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 experience. The book takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009035055
ISBN 9780804773430
0804773432
0804768994
9780804768993
0804769001
9780804769006