Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and ViolenceCornell University Press, 1993 - 270 páginas How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in exchange? What lies behind our small social panics and the maneuvers we use, to avoid losing face? Recognizing how much we care about how others see us, this wise and witty book tackles the complex subject of humiliation and the emotions that keep us going as self-respecting social actors. 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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... A brilliant , sometimes unsettling look at how ancient codes of honor figure in the social discomforts of everyday life HUMILIATION William lan Miller 1 William Ian Miller Cornell University Press Ithaca and London. Front Cover.
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And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence William Ian Miller. HUMILIATION on Honor , Social And Other Essays Discomfort , and Violence Copyright © 1993 by Cornell University All rights reserved .
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Requiting the Unwanted Gift | 15 |
Getting a Fix on Violence | 53 |
Emotions Honor and the Affective Life of the Heroic 33 | 93 |
Its Domain and Strategies | 131 |
Historicizing Humiliation | 175 |
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Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence William Ian Miller Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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