The Rhetoric of Confession

The Rhetoric of Confession

Author: Edward Fowler

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0520912764

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The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts.


The Rhetoric of Confession

The Rhetoric of Confession

Author: Edward Fowler

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9780520060647

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The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts. The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu, and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts.


Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Author: Dave Tell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0271060255

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.


The Art of Confession

The Art of Confession

Author: Christopher Grobe

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1479882089

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"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --


Sourcebook on Rhetoric

Sourcebook on Rhetoric

Author: James Jasinski

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 9780761905042

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Please update SAGE UK and SAGE INDIA addresses on imprint page.


Confession and Bookkeeping

Confession and Bookkeeping

Author: James Aho

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780791465462

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A fascinating exploration of the connection between profit making and morality, this book illustrates how modern accounting had its roots in the sacrament of confession.


Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics

Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics

Author: Brian T. Kaylor

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2010-12-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 073914880X

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When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking God to justify their public policy positions and their political visions. With this new confessional political style, the candidates have repudiated the former perspective of a civil-religious contract that kept political leaders from being too religious and religious leaders from being too political. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in the Age of Confessional Politics analyzes the religious-political discourse used by presidential nominees from 1976-2008, and then describes key characteristics of their confessional rhetoric that represent a substantial shift from the tenets of the civil-religious contract. This new confessional political style is characterized by religious-political rhetoric that is testimonial, partisan, sectarian, and liturgical in nature. In order to understand why candidates have radically adjusted their God talk on the campaign trail, important religious-political shifts in American society since the 1950s are examined, which demonstrate the rhetorical demands evangelical religious leaders have placed upon our would-be national leaders. Brian T. Kaylor utilizes Michel Foucault's work on the confession_with theoretical adjustments_to critique the significant problems of the confessional political era. With clear analyses and unsettling relevance, Kaylor's critique of contemporary political discourse will rouse the interest and concern of engaged citizens everywhere.


Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation

Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation

Author: Margaret M. Mitchell

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780664221775

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This work casts new light on the genre, function, and composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Margaret Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that First Corinthians was a single letter, not a combination of fragments, whose aim was to persuade the Corinthian Christian community to become unified.


Troubling Confessions

Troubling Confessions

Author: Peter Brooks

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-05-22

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780226075853

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Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--BOOK JACKET.


Male Confessions

Male Confessions

Author: Björn Krondorfer

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009-12-03

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0804773432

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Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.