The Mutilating God : Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion

Authors

Gerald Peters PhD, University of Southern Maine

Files

Document Type

Book

Description

This theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable study presents a genealogy of the uses of conversion narratives in linking individual identity to various forms of social authority. In The Mutilating God, Gerald Peters shows how these narratives have been used in different ways to negotiate between private motivation and social authority in the production of an identity.

ISBN

978-0-87023-891-8

Publication Date

1993

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

City

Amherst, MA

Keywords

Narration, Rhetoric, Conversion, Psychology, Identity in Literature, Authority in Literature

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | History | Psychology | Rhetoric and Composition

Recommended Citation

Peters, Gerald. The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion. University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.