To browse Academia. Im Kern ist die vorliegende Untersuchung zu "Scham als narrative Strategie" eine Untersuchung verschiedener Schamaffekte in Romanen und Kurzgeschichten von Autorinnen der schottischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Danach folgen die einzelnen Literaturdiskussionen. Scham ist trotz ihrer Tendenz, sich zu verstecken, ein enorm sozialer Affekt, sowohl in ihrer Funktion als auch in ihrer Wirkung. Ihre Funktion besteht ganz allgemein in der Einhaltung von Normen und deren Wiederherstellung nach Normverletzungen.
Donald Nathanson believes you can do better self theory with shame than with guilt; Bernard Williams believes you can do better moral theory with shame than with guilt; Eve Sedgwick believes that [β¦] you can do better queer theory with shame than with guilt; Giorgio Agamben thinks that you can do better survivor testimony theory with shame than with guilt; Elspeth Probyn thinks that you can do better gender and cultural studies with shame rather than guilt; psychiatrists and therapists think you can do better trauma theory with shame than with guilt; and so on.
Leys , p. In fact, the vital tension that arises from the ambivalence of shame's ubiquity, its undesirability and the inherent tendency to hide oneself, the feeling itself, or the cause of that feeling , which leads to shame's proverbial aim of disappearance cf. Wurmser , p. It would be a shame indeed to ignore this aspect, especially since there are almost as many different possible shame readings as there are shame feelings. Joseph Adamson, the author of Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye focuses on the negative, active-aggressive shame-rage of the male protagonists in his readings of Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd.
Ewan Fernie , by contrast, examines the positive functions of shame with regard to both sexes in Shakespeare's tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra and Corolianus, while Christopher Ricks suggests that embarrassment is the equally positive connoted presumed energetic force behind John Keats' poetic writings. Brooks Bouson discusses the traumatic shame experiences among Black Americans. There are other studies to add, e. Georgia Brown, Redefining Elizabethan Literature , which attests the Elizabethan era a particular obsession with shame, and David Ellis, Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in his Work , which deals among other things with the shame-liberating force of laughter.
Despite not dealing with an English author, Deborah Martinsen's discussion of 'Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure' in her study Surprised by Shame is to be mentioned here for its methodological focus.
