Male confessions
Subtitle: intimate revelations and the religious imagination
By: Björn Krondorfer.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804768993; 9780804769006
Subjects: Confession in literature; Christian literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : male confessions; title: Interlude : on mirrors; title: The confines of male confessions : on ancient vainglory and the postmodern gaze; title: Interlude : on testimony; title: Non-absent bodies and moral agency : confessions of an African bishop and a Jewish ghetto policeman; title: A perpetrator and his hagiographer : Oswald Pohl's confession; title: Interlude : on tears; title: Sons of tears : displacing the intimate (female) other; title: Not from my lips : from annihilation to nation building; title: On spirit and sperm : eroticizing God, sanctifying the body; title: Outlook : the power to name oneself into being.