TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kort,Wesley A.
TI  - Textual intimacy: autobiography and religious identities 
T2  - Studies in religion and culture
SN  - 9780813932781
AV  - BL628.5 .K67 2012eb
U1  - 810.9/382 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Spiritual journals
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Autobiographie
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Journaux spirituels
KW  - Art d'écrire
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Autobiografie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religiöse Identität
KW  - Självbiografi
KW  - religiösa aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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