ascesis

shares the interest in embodiment, relationality, and intimacy that has been at the center of much feminist theology, along with an implicit critique of the excesses of abstraction, rationalism, and ascesis that have dominated much of Christianity's androcentric past.

So, while her postcolonial sensibility deplores acts of cultural voyeurism and the appropriation of the Other for one's own purposes, Papayanis argues that expatriates like Durrell, Lawrence, and Bowles can be read as performing an ethical practice of self-discipline, or ascesis, as they attempt to extract from their confrontations with the Other some significant life good.

In this matter Merton on one occasion singled out the Russian writer Boris Pasternak, with whom he had begun a correspondence, as someone who exemplified an authentic ascesis of work.

Tal vez el lugar de mas pura y rica ascesis del lenguaje a que pudo llegar Borges es en el poema tan justamente titulado "Arte poetica".