Humiliation – And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence
Autor William Ian Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 1995
William Ian Miller writes astutely about a host of homely and seemingly banal social occasions and shows us what is buried behind them. In his view, our lives are permeated with sometimes merely uncomfortable, sometimes hair-raising rituals of shame and humiliation. Take the unwanted dinner invitation, the exchange of valentines in grade school, or the "diabolically ingenious invention of the bridal registry." Readers will have no trouble recognizing the social situations he finds indicative of our often perilous dealings with each other.
Educated as a literary critic and philologist, by profession a historian of medieval Iceland, by employment a law professor, Miller ranges comfortably beyond his areas of formal expertise to talk about emotions across time and culture. His scenarios are based on incidents from his own college town and from the Iceland of the sagas. He also makes incursions into the emotional worlds represented in the Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and in some of the works of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and others. Indeed, one theme that gradually becomes specific is how meaning travels from one culture to another. Ancient codes of honor, he insists, still function in contemporary American life.
Some of Miller's narratives are unsettling, and he acknowledges that a certain ironical misanthropy may run through his discussions. But he succeeds in cutting through a mountain of pretensions to entertain and enlighten us.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801481178
ISBN-10: 0801481171
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
ISBN-10: 0801481171
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press