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 Sylvan Tomkins claims, "strikes deepest" into the human heart.
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Joseph Adamson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at McMaster University. He is the author of Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye, also published by SUNY Press; Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction; and Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life. Hilary Clark is Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan and author of The Fictional Encyclopedia: Joyce, Pound, Sollers.
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- Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom by Jeffrey Berman in Front Matter, page 22, and Back Matter
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- Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant by Elizabeth Dreyer in Back Matter
- The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery by Irene Gammel in Back Matter
- The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature by Tracy Fessenden on page 272
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