Textual intimacy : autobiography and religious identities /
Kort, Wesley A.
Textual intimacy : autobiography and religious identities / Wesley A. Kort. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Studies in religion and culture .
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.
9780813932781 0813932785 1280678194 9781280678196 9786613655127 6613655120
22573/ctt6tbj7s JSTOR
Autobiography--Religious aspects.
Spiritual journals--Authorship.
Autobiographie--Aspect religieux.
Journaux spirituels--Art d'écrire.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
RELIGION--Philosophy.
Autobiography--Religious aspects
Spiritual journals--Authorship
Autobiografie
Religiöse Identität
Autobiografie.
Religiöse Identität.
Självbiografi--religiösa aspekter.
Electronic books.
BL628.5 / .K67 2012eb
810.9/382
Textual intimacy : autobiography and religious identities / Wesley A. Kort. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (252 pages) - Studies in religion and culture .
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.
9780813932781 0813932785 1280678194 9781280678196 9786613655127 6613655120
22573/ctt6tbj7s JSTOR
Autobiography--Religious aspects.
Spiritual journals--Authorship.
Autobiographie--Aspect religieux.
Journaux spirituels--Art d'écrire.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
RELIGION--Philosophy.
Autobiography--Religious aspects
Spiritual journals--Authorship
Autobiografie
Religiöse Identität
Autobiografie.
Religiöse Identität.
Självbiografi--religiösa aspekter.
Electronic books.
BL628.5 / .K67 2012eb
810.9/382