Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities (Studies in Religion and Culture) - Hardcover

Book 3 of 15: Studies in Religion and Culture

Wesley A. Kort (author)

 
9780813932767: Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities (Studies in Religion and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0813932769 ISBN 13: 9780813932767
Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813932769
ISBN 13 
9780813932767
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272

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