Humiliation

Name: Humiliation
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ISBN: 9780312429225

ISBN-10: 0312429223

ISBN-13: 9780312429225

Edition: 2011

Authors: Wayne Koestenbaum

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The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility of "success," of prominence, but also come to visceral terms with our own vulnerable selves. We can't stop watching the scene of shame, identifying with it and absorbing its nearness, and relishing our imagined immunity from its stain, even as we acknowledge the universal, embarrassing predicament of living in our own bodies. With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum takes us through a spectrum of mortifying circumstancesin history, literature,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

He is professor of English at the Graduate Center of the city University of New York & lives in New York City.