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Textual intimacy : autobiography and religious identities / Wesley A. Kort.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in religion and culturePublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813932781
  • 0813932785
  • 1280678194
  • 9781280678196
  • 9786613655127
  • 6613655120
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Textual intimacy.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/382 23
LOC classification:
  • BL628.5 .K67 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Telling you who I am -- Narrative and self-accounts -- Disclosing a religious identity -- Religious debtors -- Religious dwellers -- Religious diviners -- Moving out: grounding a religious identity -- On my own: taking on a religious identity -- Looking ahead: religious identity as being received.
Summary: "Given its natural 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 his journey with a meditation on several meanings of the single word assumption."--Page 4 of cover.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)458277

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Telling you who I am -- Narrative and self-accounts -- Disclosing a religious identity -- Religious debtors -- Religious dwellers -- Religious diviners -- Moving out: grounding a religious identity -- On my own: taking on a religious identity -- Looking ahead: religious identity as being received.

"Given its natural 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 his journey with a meditation on several meanings of the single word assumption."--Page 4 of cover.

English.