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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame Book
Humiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer a near-perfect micro-climate for embarrassment and shame. There is something about the conjunction of high-mindedness and low income that is inherently comic; something about the very idea of deeply private thoughts -- carefully worked and honed into art over the years -- being presented to a public audience of dubious strangers, that strays perilously close to tragedy. These seventy contributions prove it is possible to reverse Auden's dictum: that art is born out of humiliation.Read More
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- 0060750928
- 9780060750923
- Robin Robertson
- 1 April 2005
- Harper Perennial
- Paperback (Book)
- 288
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