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Condition: Fair Cover edges curling and ink markings on several pages near beginning and inside back cover, plus sticker referring to "Vallaria" but overall good reading copy. Content: "Has Western Man, to quote Foucault, become a confessing animal? Drawing on new critical theory, deconstruction and psychoanalysis, this study argues that the impuse to confess produces people as subjects with the need to narrate and lay bare the secrets of their lives and to define themselves in relation to their own and to a presumed normal sexuality. "The author surveys confessional practices running through Western societies, such as the church and the police, and examines confessional listerature, taking in such writers as Augustine, Rousseau, Dostoyevsky, Mann, Nietzsche, Sartre and Genet. There are sections on medieval confession, on the early modern period and on Romanticism. Literature is seen as inherently confessional, constructing the author as marked out by a deep personal subjectivity; hence Jeremy Tambling also looks at possible resistances to confession, including self-fashioning and the production of the post-modernist self. He further asks about the relationship of the confession to strategies of power and control in modern society." (from the cover) Background / Biography: "Jeremy Tambling is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong." (from the cover) Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book " Augustine's Confessions (c. 397) provides a fictional beginning of confession, where the unitary subject, the single 'I' plots an intelligent trajectory of its self. The book's form is a prayer, so to this 'I' is added a 'Thou' who hears the prolonged confession, but who does not need to hear it, as he knows the detail of it already, but it is listening for the benefit of the confessant. 'O Lord, since you live outside time in eternity, are you unaware of the things that I tell you? Or do you see in time the things that occur in it? If you see them, why do I lay this lengthy record before you?' (11.1.p.253) " opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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