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Author : Judith Chelius Stark
Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 902/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feminist Interpretations of Augustine by : Judith Chelius Stark
Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Augustine written by Judith Chelius Stark. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Power
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Veiled Desire by : Kim Power
Download or read book Veiled Desire written by Kim Power. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses Augustine's views on women, particularly women within Christian theology. The author also addresses how Augustine's views were based on his cultural and psychological circumstances, and how his ideas on and attitudes towards women changed.
Author : Kim Paffenroth
Release : 2024-03-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Augustine and Gender by : Kim Paffenroth
Download or read book Augustine and Gender written by Kim Paffenroth. This book was released on 2024-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex and marriage, the possibilities of human speech and exegesis, and the hope of education and community. In addition, this book is a persuasive demonstration of the benefits of bringing together Augustinian scholars with the most pressing concerns of the present.
Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Release : 2018-09-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 91X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sexual Dissidence by : Jonathan Dollimore
Download or read book Sexual Dissidence written by Jonathan Dollimore. This book was released on 2018-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.
Author : Virginia Burrus
Release : 2010
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seducing Augustine by : Virginia Burrus
Download or read book Seducing Augustine written by Virginia Burrus. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Rather than expose Augustine's sexual history, they explore how the Confessions conjoins the erotic with the hidden, the imaginary, and the fictional. Rather than bemoan the repressiveness of his text, they uncover the complex relationship between seductive flesh and persuasive words that pervades all of its books. Rather than struggle to escape the control of the author, they embrace the painful pleasure of willed submission that lies at the erotic heart not only of the Confessions but also of Augustine's broader understanding of sin and salvation. Rather than mourn the fateful otherworldliness of his theological vision, they plumb the bottomless depths of beauty that Augustine discovers within creation, thereby extending desire precisely by refusing satisfaction. In unfolding their readings, the authors draw upon other works in Augustine's corpus while building on prior Augustinian scholarship in their own overlapping fields of history, theology, and philosophy. They also press well beyond the conventional boundaries of scholarly disciplines, conversing with such wide-ranging theorists of eroticism as Barthes, Baudrillard, Klossowski, Foucault, and Harpham. In the end, they offer not only a fresh interpretation of Augustine's famous work but also a multivocal literary-philosophical meditation on the seductive elusiveness of desire, bodies, language, and God.
