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Confession, counter-conduct, critique
In this piece, I highlight three texts by French philosopher Michel Foucault on confession, counter-conduct, and critique to consider the operations...
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Confession, counter-conduct, critique
In this piece, I highlight three texts by French philosopher Michel Foucault on confession, counter-conduct, and critique to consider the operations...
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The sign you must not touch: Lyric obscurity and trans confession
It would not be going too far to say that contemporary trans subjects are trapped in the confessional. In order to access the medical and legal tools...
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The embarrassments of confession: Reading Margery Kempe today
An underexplored but key point of critical and affective response to Margery Kempe’s Book is its perceived double excess: an over-eagerness to...
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Confession and the Self
This chapter examines a formal feature common to many narratives of the death penalty: the extended confession of the murderer, which in the texts...
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The sign you must not touch: Lyric obscurity and trans confession
It would not be going too far to say that contemporary trans subjects are trapped in the confessional. In order to access the medical and legal tools...
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The embarrassments of confession: Reading Margery Kempe today
An underexplored but key point of critical and affective response to Margery Kempe’s Book is its perceived double excess: an over-eagerness to...
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The Cartographer’s Confession: An Artist Interview with James Attlee
This chapter is the second of three artist interviews that explore the practice-based research outputs that are central to the Ambient Literature...
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The voice inside the wall: A muyto devota oração da empardeada as a confession of enclosure
In 1992, a secret library of eleven books was discovered in the wall of an old house in the small town of Barcarrota, near the border between the...
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Confessional text in the light of Yuri Lotman’s semiotic research
Yuri Lotman developed and during his career frequently revisited the concept of “culture as text,” which he demonstrated to be universal. Within the...
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The voice inside the wall: A muyto devota oração da empardeada as a confession of enclosure
In 1992, a secret library of eleven books was discovered in the wall of an old house in the small town of Barcarrota, near the border between the...
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How to corner a poem (and watch it thrive): A timely confession
The medieval tradition of Hebrew liturgical poetry (called Piyyut, after the Greek Poesis) treated ritual time with reverence, allotting poems their...
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Lay Theologians as Experts in the Early Modern Period
In the Early Modern period, many professions, including theology, did not yet have systems to validate expertise. Some laypeople were able to acquire...
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Making Confessions
Our secrets affect who we are and how we relate to others—often in deeply negative ways. Confession, if fully understood and performed before an...
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How to corner a poem (and watch it thrive): A timely confession
The medieval tradition of Hebrew liturgical poetry (called Piyyut , after the Greek Poesis ) treated ritual time with reverence, allotting poems their...
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Dying Unshriven and the Afterlife in Hamlet
Hamlet is a revenge tragedy thematically engaged with the doctrinal topics of sin, salvation, and the afterlife in the Christian faith. This tragedy...
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Chronic denial: When making change means saying the whole truth
Through a personal exploration of disability as experience, this essay explores the navigation of confession and its ramifications and relevance for...
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Premodern race studies in academic country
This piece offers Ayanna Thompson’s confession about her training in early modern studies and a window into what it takes to master premodern...
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The gift of shame
This short confession looks back at the confessional mode of a 2009 article, ‘The Object of Devotion,’ on the impact of religious orientation on my...
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Chronic denial: When making change means saying the whole truth
Through a personal exploration of disability as experience, this essay explores the navigation of confession and its ramifications and relevance for...