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9780060750923
Mortification Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame
by Robertson, Robin
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- ISBN-13: 9780060750923
- ISBN: 0060750928
- Publication Date: 2005
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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.Robertson, Robin is the author of 'Mortification Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060750923 and ISBN 0060750928.
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