Critical Confessions Now
Title | Critical Confessions Now PDF eBook |
Author | Abdulhamit Arvas |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Confession |
ISBN | 3031185080 |
This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses — from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 2-3, August 2020.
Critical Confessions
Title | Critical Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Augustine's Confessions
Title | Augustine's Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Annemaré Kotzé |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004139265 |
This reading of the "Confessions" focuses on its aim to convert its readers (it displays some characteristics of the protreptic genre) and on a specific segment of its potential audience, Augustine's erstwhile co-religionists, the Manichaeans.
Modern Confessional Writing
Title | Modern Confessional Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Gill |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780415339698 |
This collection of essays provides a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.
The Confession of Faith
Title | The Confession of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Bower |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781601782434 |
Confessions
Title | Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Docherty |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1849666598 |
This book explores what is at stake in the confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Title | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man PDF eBook |
Author | John Perkins |
Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2004-11-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1576755126 |
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.