Scenes of shame : psychoanalysis, shame, and writing / Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamson, Joseph, 1950-

Clark, Hilary, 1955-

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Shame in literature.

English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature--Psychological aspects.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 280 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 1999.

Contents:

Introduction: shame, affect, writing / Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark

The disappearing who: Kierkegaard, shame, and the self / Benjamin Kilborne

Guardian of the "inmost me": Hawthorne and shame / Joseph Adamson

Ardor and shame in Middlemarch / Gordon Hirsch

Goerge Eliot and dilemmas of the female child / Joseph D. Lichtenberg

"Man of the most dangerous curiosity": Nietszche's "fruitful and frightful vision" and his war against shame / Léon Wurmser

"The dread and repulsiveness of the wild": D.H. Lawrence and shame / Barbara Schapiro

Shame in Japan and the American south: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Philip Collington

Depression, shame, and reparation: the case of Anne Sexton / Hilary Clark

"Quiet as it's kept": shame and trauma in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / J. Brooks Bouson

Unmasking shame in an expository writing course / Jeffrey Berman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9427-6

0-585-06758-9