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Issues of Shame and Guilt in the Modern Novel: Conrad, Ford, Greene, Kafka, Camus, Wilde, Proust, and Mann
Author(s): David Tenenbaum (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780773447004
- ISBN-13: 0773447008
Book Description
This mamuscript addresses the changes in literary depictions of remorse fostered by modernist literature’s response to normative ethical standards. Certain twentieth-century authors believed that the High Modern Period demanded a reconsideration of how individuals may hope to achieve the same social responsibility dictated by traditional values in light of a great awareness of fundamental human impulses. These writers attempted to evaluate the principles of their society by reconsidering the emotional conqequences of the decision to bypass these accepted moral codes.
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This mamuscript addresses the changes in literary depictions of remorse fostered by modernist literature’s response to normative ethical standards. Certain twentieth-century authors believed that the High Modern Period demanded a reconsideration of how individuals may hope to achieve the same social responsibility dictated by traditional values in light of a great awareness of fundamental human impulses. These writers attempted to evaluate the principles of their society by reconsidering the emotional conqequences of the decision to bypass these accepted moral codes.
About the Author
Dr. Tenenbaum is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Kean University. He Completed his Ph.D at the CUNY Graduate Center in May, 2006. He has published a number of articles on the issue of remorse including “Survivor Guilt in Lord Jim” and “Race, Class and Shame in the Fiction of Philip Roth”
