Male confessions : intimate revelations and the religious imagination /
Krondorfer, Björn.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
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.
Confession in literature.
Christian literature
Masculinity