| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Confession in literature.
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Confession in literature. |
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Christian literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
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Christian literature. |
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Male authors. |
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Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krondorfer, Björn. Male confessions. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804768993 (DLC) 2009035055 (OCoLC)435917852 |
| ISBN |
9780804773430 (electronic book) |
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0804773432 (electronic book) |
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0804768994 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804768993 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804769001 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804769006 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804768993 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804769006 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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