Seducing Augustine : bodies, desires, confessions / / Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick

• Autore: Burrus Virginia
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 270.2092
• Soggetto topico: Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Altri autori: JordanMark D MacKendrickKarmen <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Seducing Augustine -- Contents -- Preface -- Seducing Augustine -- Introduction -- Secrets and Lies -- The Word , His Body -- Freedom in Submission -- No Time for Sex -- Conclusion -- Note s -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text.Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes-secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity.
• Altri titoli varianti: Seducing Augustine; On the Edge of Freedom
• Titolo autorizzato: Seducing Augustine
• ISBN: 9780823231959; 082323195X; 9781441644756; 144164475X; 9780823248476; 082324847X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967428803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II