Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / James M. Wilce.

Author/creator Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoMalden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Descriptionxv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- For crying out loud : what is lament anyway? -- Lament and emotion -- Antiquity, metaculture, and the control of lament -- Cultural amnesia and the objectification of lament in Bangladesh -- Modern transformations -- How shame spreads in modernity -- Crying backward : primitivist representations of lament -- Mourning becomes the electron's age : lamenting modernity(ies) -- Lament's (post)modern vertigo : floating in a deterritorialized media sea -- Lament in a postmodern world of "revivals" -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.
LCCN 2008033461
ISBN9781405169929 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1405169923 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GT3390 .W56 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold