Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities - Brossura

Kort, Wesley A.

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ISBN 10: 0813932777 ISBN 13: 9780813932774

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this "textual intimacy," Wesley Kort begins with a theorization of what it means to say who one is and how one's self-account as a religious person stands in relation to other forms of self-identification. He then provides a critical analysis of autobiographical texts by nine contemporary American writers—including Maya Angelou, Philip Roth, and Anne Lamott—who give religion a positive place in their accounts of who they are. Finally, in disclosing his own religious identity, Kort concludes with a meditation on several meanings of the word assumption.

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L'autore

Wesley A. Kort, Professor of Religion at Duke University, is the author of Place and Space in Modern Fiction.

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Book by Kort Wesley A

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0813932777
• ISBN 13: 9780813932774
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252