Male confessions
Krondorfer, Björn.
Male confessions intimate revelations and the religious imagination / [electronic resource] : Björn Krondorfer. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 298 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-286) and index.
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.
9780804773430 (electronic bk.) 0804773432 (electronic bk.)
Confession in literature.
Christian literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
Masculinity--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Electronic books.
PN56.C67 / K76 2010eb
809/.933826562
Male confessions intimate revelations and the religious imagination / [electronic resource] : Björn Krondorfer. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 298 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-286) and index.
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.
9780804773430 (electronic bk.) 0804773432 (electronic bk.)
Confession in literature.
Christian literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
Masculinity--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Electronic books.
PN56.C67 / K76 2010eb
809/.933826562
