Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791439755 ISBN 13 : 9780791439753

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Explores the role of shame as an important affect in the complex psychodynamics of literary and philosophical works.

The significance of shame as a critical human emotion has come to be recognized in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychology. Scenes of Shame brings this body of theory to bear on literary and philosophical representations of shame. The contributors explore the role of shame as an important affect in the psychodynamics of a wide range of literary and philosophical works, including essays on Kierkegaard, Hawthorne, George Eliot, Nietzsche, Lawrence, Faulkner, Sexton, and Toni Morrison. The book also includes an analysis of the problem of shame in student lifewriting in the classroom, and testifies to the importance of affect in philosophy and literature, as well as to the way in which imaginative writers can clarify and enrich our understanding of an emotion that, as Silvan Tomkins claims, "strikes deepest" into the human heart.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Joseph Adamson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at McMaster University. He has also written Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life and Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction.

Hilary Clark is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the coeditor (with Joseph Adamson) of Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Dwelling of Weather; More Light; and Two Heavens.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791439755
• ISBN 13: 9780791439753
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Adamson Joseph, Clark Hilary
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible