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Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Subjects:
Mourning customs.
Laments.
Crying.
Weepers (Mourners)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • For crying out loud : what is lament anyway?
  • Lament and emotion
  • Antiquity, metaculture, and the control of lament
  • Cultural amnesia and the objectification of lament in Bangladesh
  • Modern transformations
  • How shame spreads in modernity
  • Crying backward : primitivist representations of lament
  • Mourning becomes the electron's age : lamenting modernity(ies)
  • Lament's (post)modern vertigo : floating in a deterritorialized media sea
  • Lament in a postmodern world of "revivals"
  • Conclusion.