Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across an array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and...
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Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across an array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets and clinical writers. It serves as a timely reflection of shame as presented in modern writing, giving added attention to engagements on race, gender, and the question of new media representation
Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing -- 2 Montaigne's Writing: "Honteux Insolent"? -- 3 Shamefulness and Modernity: Remarks on...
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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing -- 2 Montaigne's Writing: "Honteux Insolent"? -- 3 Shamefulness and Modernity: Remarks on Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 -- 4 Lyric Shame -- 5 Writing to Spare One's Blushes: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and the Automation of Confidence -- 6 Between Shame and Guilt: Lord Jim and the Confounding of Distinctions -- 7 Black and Ashamed: Deconstructing Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- 8 The Body that Race Built: Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child -- 9 "The Lyric a Form / of Shame Management"? -- 10 Vulnerability and Vulgarity: The Uses of Shame in the Work of Dodie Bellamy -- 11 Writing Shame and Disgust in Susan Gubar's Memoir of a Debulked Woman -- 12 On Writing-Up: Shame and Clinical Writing -- 13 Shame and Plagiarism -- 14 "Dance Like Nobody's Watching": The Mediated Shame of Academic Publishing -- 15 Cultural Capital and the Shameful University -- Index
