Modern French Identities 79 Modern French Identities 79 Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (eds) As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy This collection of essays, on French and francophone prose, poetry, drama, visual art, cinema and thought, assesses guilt and shame in relation to structures of social morality, language and self-expression, the thinking of trauma, and the ethics of forgiveness The authors approach their subjects via close readings and comparative study, drawing on such thinkers as Adorno, Derrida, Jankélévitch and Irigaray Through these they consider works ranging from the medieval Roman de la rose through to Gustave Moreau’s Symbolist painting, Giacometti’s sculpture, the films of Marina de Van and recent sub-Saharan African writing The collection provides an étatprésent of thinking on guilt and shame in French Studies, and is the first to assemble work on this topic ranging from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century The book contains nine contributions in English and four in French Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (eds) Guilt and Shame Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture ISBN 978-3-03911-563-1 Guilt and Shame Jennifer Higgins is a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford She specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French poetry, and particularly English responses to this poetry via translation Peter Lang • Jenny Chamarette is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in French at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge She specialises in French and European cinema and time-based media, film and art theory, and twentieth-century French thought Modern French Identities 79 Modern French Identities 79 Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (eds) As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy This collection of essays, on French and francophone prose, poetry, drama, visual art, cinema and thought, assesses guilt and shame in relation to structures of social morality, language and self-expression, the thinking of trauma, and the ethics of forgiveness The authors approach their subjects via close readings and comparative study, drawing on such thinkers as Adorno, Derrida, Jankélévitch and Irigaray Through these they consider works ranging from the medieval Roman de la rose through to Gustave Moreau’s Symbolist painting, Giacometti’s sculpture, the films of Marina de Van and recent sub-Saharan African writing The collection provides an étatprésent of thinking on guilt and shame in French Studies, and is the first to assemble work on this topic ranging from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century The book contains nine contributions in English and four in French Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (eds) Guilt and Shame Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture Guilt and Shame Jennifer Higgins is a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford She specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French poetry, and particularly English responses to this poetry via translation Peter Lang • Jenny Chamarette is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in French at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge She specialises in French and European cinema and time-based media, film and art theory, and twentieth-century French thought Guilt and Shame M odern F rench I dentities Edited by Peter Collier Volume 79 Peter Lang Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main New York Wien l l l l l l Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins (eds) Guilt and Shame Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture Peter Lang Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main New York Wien l l l l l l 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Bern 2010 Hochfeldstrasse 32, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland info@peterlang.com, www.peterlang.com, www.peterlang.net All rights reserved All parts of this publication are protected by copyright Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems Printed in Germany Contents Acknowledgments vii Jenny Chamarette and Jennifer Higgins Introduction Bill Burgwinkle Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency: The Case of La Fille du Comte de Pontieu 15 Irène Fabry ‘Si en i ot de teus qui i conterent plus lor honte que leur honour’: Enadain et Gauvain, les chevaliers transformés en nains dans la Suite Vulgate du Merlin 31 Mary Flannery The Shame of the Rose : A Paradox 51 Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde Guilt’s Reconfiguration of Time and Relational Ties in SeventeenthCentury French Theatre: A Study of Molière’s Dom Juan, Rotrou’s Cosroès, Tristan L’Hermite’s La Mariane and Racine’s Phèdre 71 Frédéric Miquel Quand le langage spirituel plaide coupable: linguistique et péché au XVIIe siècle 87 Natasha Grigorian Guilt and Desire in the Dream World: Gustave Moreau and Jean Moréas 101 vi Najate Zouggari L’Impardonnable, l’imprescriptible et l’exigence éthique de pardon 113 Eszter HorvÁth Psyché: le péché originel 125 Ruth Kitchen Guilt and Shame in Occupation Narrative: Reading the Open Secret and Cultural Amnesia in Blanchot’s L’Instant de ma mort and Grimbert’s Un secret 141 Timothy Mathews Trauma, Witness, Form: Thinking Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti 161 Davina Quinlivan ‘Whispering on the threshold of the flesh’: The Breathing Body, Silence and Embodied Shame in Marina de Van’s Dans ma peau (2002) 177 Lucy Bolton Remembering Flesh: Morvern Callar as an Irigarayan Alice 189 Charlotte Baker ‘For a minute, their sense of the ways of the world was ruptured Just by looking’: The Black African Albino in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine 201 Notes on Contributors 215 Index 219 Acknowledgments The inspiration for this publication emerged from the theme of the eleventh annual French Graduate Conference, held at King’s College, Cambridge in April 2007 The editors are grateful to the French Department of the University of Cambridge for their generous financial and administrative support in the course of editing and compilation, and particularly to Emma Wilson and Peter Collier, whose advice and encouragement have been invaluable We would also like to thank Hannah Kilduff (of Trinity Hall, Cambridge) for assistance with proofreading, Sylvain Lourme for his translations and, finally, Graham Speake and all at Peter Lang for their help during the process of editing this book 216 Notes on Contributors Jenny Chamarette is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in French at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge She specialises in French and European cinema and time-based media (including photography, video and installation art), film and art theory, and twentieth-century French thought, particularly of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze She has publications on visual ellipsis in the work of Hélène Cixous and the photographer Robert Frank, and on Chris Marker’s La Jetée Irène Fabry gained the Agrégation in Lettres Modernes after having studied at the ENS-LSH in Lyon, and is writing her PhD thesis in medieval literature on ‘Text and image in the manuscripts of the prose Merlin and its Vulgate Sequel (c. 13th)’ at Université Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, where she is also a teaching assistant Mary Flannery is a lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London After completing her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, she worked in the Manuscripts Department at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles before joining QMUL in 2008 Natasha Grigorian is a Research Fellow in French and Comparative Literature at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Her DPhil in European Literature was completed at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2006 She is the author of a series of articles and conference papers on late nineteenthand early twentieth-century European literature and visual art, published in particular in Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Comparative Critical Studies A full-length book, European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860–1910), was published by Peter Lang in 2009 Jennifer Higgins is a Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford She specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French poetry, and particularly on English responses to this poetry via translation Jennifer has published on the late nineteenth-century translations of French poetry by Alma Strettell and Anne Gilchrist, and on the work of the Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren Notes on Contributors 217 Eszter Horváth est spécialiste de la philosophie franỗaise Ses recherches portent sur la thộõtralitộ inhộrente la pensée contemporaine, sa thèse a comme sujet la théâtralité philosophique (Deleuze/Derrida: la doublure de la différence) Elle enseigne la philosophie contemporaine l’Université tvưs Lóránd de Budapest Ruth Kitchen is in the third year of her doctorate at the University of Leeds Her thesis considers the representation and evolution of the themes of guilt and shame in literature of the German Occupation of France The thesis is attached to an AHRC-funded project between the University of Leeds and the University of Durham entitled ‘Narratives of War and Occupation in France from 1939 to the present’ The project aims to critically re-examine literary and historiographical assumptions underpinning current approaches to narratives of war and occupation in French fiction since 1939 in order to re-appraise the nature and function of these narratives in post-war French literary and cultural history As part of the project she is collaborating in creating an electronic database of French narratives of war and occupation The web address is: www.frame.leeds.ac.uk Timothy Mathews is Professor of French and Comparative Criticism at University College London His is author of Reading Apollinaire Theories of Poetic Language (MUP, 1987 and 1990), and Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France (CUP, 2000 and 2006) He is currently writing a monograph entitled Where is Alberto Giacometti? Other essays on Giacometti have appeared in Porous Boundaries, edited by Jérôme Game (Peter Lang, 2007), in Stories and Portraits of the Self, edited by Helena Buescu et al (Rodopi, 2007), in French Studies (October 2007), and in Ésprit créateur (Fall 2007) He is preparing Guillaume Apollinaire, a critical life for Reaktion books He is translating into English Illusions sur mesure by Gérard Macé (Gallimard, 2004), and with Delphine Grass, Le Sens du combat by Michel Houellebecq (Flammarion, 1996) Frédéric Miquel est professeur agrégé de Lettres dans un établissement scolaire, Docteur es Lettres depuis novembre 2008, membre issu de l’IRCL (Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Age Classique et les Lumières/ 218 Notes on Contributors Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the Enlightenment), qui est une unité mixte (UMR 5186) du CNRS Il est aussi chargé de mission Littérature pour l’Académie de Montpellier Davina Quinlivan is nearing completion of a PhD in Film Studies at King’s College London Her research examines the locus of the breathing body in contemporary western Cinema Davina has two articles forthcoming, one on the subject of realism in the cinema in a collected volume of articles for Palgrave and a paper on exhibition spaces in a forthcoming book on New Feminisms Davina is a part-time lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London and Kingston University Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde is a second-year PhD student in early modern French at the University of Cambridge Her thesis examines the figure of the liar in seventeenth-century comedy and is supervised by Professor Philip Ford Her publications include the article ‘“Ce commerce honteux de semblans d’amitié”: The omnipresence of untruthful transactions: A case study of four seventeenth-century comedies’ in Exchanges (Peter Lang, forthcoming) Index Adam, Christian figure of 91–2, 194 Adam, Paul 102, 112 Adorno, Theodor 164, 169–70, 173–4, 176 aesthetics 169, 176, 179 aesthetic technique 9, 101, 111, 179–80 Africa Sub-Saharan 11, 201–9, 214 Agamben, Giorgio 5, 13 air 178–84 albinism, medical condition of 201–4, 209–10, 215 albino, figure of in literature 11–12, 201–14 Alice literary figure of 11, 189, 190–1, 193, 197, 199, 200 allegory 52–3, 58–9, 64–6, 132 amitié see friendship amnesia 10–11, 144–9, 152 cultural 141–3, 154–5, 157 see also memory amorality 75 apparence see appearance appearance 12, 31–48, 85, 105, 107–8, 168, 173, 202–4, 206–7 asocial attitude 77, 178–80, 212 Avant-garde 170–1, 173 Bakhtin, Mikhail 162–3, 175 Barthes, Roland 163, 173, 176 beauté see beauty beauty 9, 24, 37, 101–2, 106, 109, 110 ideal 110–11 and la beauté monstrueuse 107–9 and la femme élue 104–6, 108, 110 Beckett, Samuel 163–4, 176 Benjamin, Walter 9–10, 161–76 Béroul 17–22, 28 blame see faute Blanchot, Maurice 5, 10, 13, 141–6, 148, 151–4, 156–9 L’Instant de ma mort 10, 143, 145–6, 148, 150, 151–3, 154–5, 156, 157–8 Blankenberg, Ngaire 201, 208, 214 blood 80, 81, 178, 181, 185, 186, 190–1, 204 blood ties 79, 83 see also kinship body 4, 11–12, 18, 23, 24, 105, 106, 110, 144, 164, 174, 177–87, 190–1, 193, 195–6, 199, 201, 205–10, 213–14 boundaries 5, 12, 21, 29, 104, 151, 178, 180–1, 184, 201, 206–8, 209, 212, 214 breath 11, 177–87 Brecht, Bertold 168–71, 176 Carroll, Lewis 190, 192, 193 Chanson de Roland 18 chastity 7, 51, 54–5, 57–62, 64–8 allegorical figure of 58–61 see also honour chevalier see knight cinema contemporary French 11, 177–87 contemporary representations of women in 177–87, 189–200 medium of 11, 177–8 220 sound in 11, 170–80, 179–83, 192, 196–7, 199 cinéma du corps 179–80 city 180–4, 187, 211–12 Cixous, Hélène 189 communauté see community community 2, 10, 15, 19, 21–2, 33, 35, 38, 162 conscience 45, 47, 91, 98, 114, 125, 155, 163 et l’inconscience 126–7, 129–32 see also consciousness conscience 16, 18–20, 78, 141, 149 consciousness 20, 114, 127, 149, 184, 189, 163 control 17, 181, 205, 207 Cooper, Sarah 189 Corneille, Pierre 7, 74 corporeality 177, 179, 181, 199 courtoisie 31, 42, 43–4 Cubism 167 culpability 7, 10, 77, 82–3, 141 déconstruction see deconstruction deconstruction 121, 136, 137, 173 Deleuze, Gilles 127, 155–6, 158, 193 Différence et Répétition 155, 158 Derrida, Jacques 10, 13, 116–24, 126–39, 149–50, 152–3, 157 Monolinguisme de l’autre 163 desire 3, 8–9, 53, 59, 61, 83–4, 101–12, 144, 179, 185, 186–7, 193–4, 211, 213 Destremau, Didier 201–14 Nègre blanc 204, 205–6, 208, 210, 211 deuil 126–7, 129–32, 138–9 see also grief; mourning dialogic 162–4, 170 Diderot, Denis 2, 7–8 dieu see God différence see difference difference cultural 15, 17 Index ontological 12, 27, 126, 133, 138, 155, 186, 205, 207, 209–14 and repetition 155, 158 sexual 138, 192, 194–5 dimensions conceptual 163, 169, 174–5 performative 37 in space 103, 107, 161, 169 in time 72–3, 79 disappearance 36, 47, 79, 115, 130, 147, 165, 173–5, 211, 213 disparition see disappearance Dom Juan 75–7, 79 droits de l’homme 113–14, 122 ego 132, 146, 173, 175 embodiment 11, 63–4, 177–88 Enadain chevalric figure of 31–48 Enlightenment 8, 162, 170–1 ethics 1–13, 19, 29, 45, 53, 111, 113–24, 142–3 éthique see ethics Expressionism 167 family 24–6, 80–2, 143, 144, 147, 158, 170, 194, 198, 203 see also identity; familial fairies 105–8 faute 32–34, 44, 88, 91–2, 94, 95, 97–8, 120 femininity 7–8, 11, 51–68, 107–9, 111, 127–136, 137, 180, 184, 189–200 see also gender; identity, female; subjectivity Fénéon, Félix 102 flesh 11, 177–88, 189–200 fragment 76, 145, 151, 170, 173, 186 francophone literature 12, 204–14 Freak Show 208–9, 212 Freud, Sigmund 2–3, 21, 78, 128–30, 131, 144–6, 155 Index Friend allegorical figure of 53, 59–61, 67, 68 friendship 20, 32, 36, 38, 84, 136–9, 153–4, 184, 190, 198, 212 Galatea mythical figure of 104–5, 109–10 Gauvain chevalric figure of 7, 31–49 gaze 12, 105, 184, 201, 208, 210, 213 see also scrutiny; vision; looking and seeing gender 7, 17, 22, 29, 64 see also masculinity; identity, masculine; identity, feminine; femininity; sexuality; subjectivity génocide 115 genre comic 74 spirituel 7–8, 87–99 tragic 71 gesture 10, 35, 76, 107, 147, 157, 164–8, 171, 175, 184, 189 Giacometti, Alberto 10, 13, 161–76 God 8, 17, 18, 21, 24, 35, 36, 58, 63, 66, 76, 87–98, 119 Goya, Francisco 175 Grainville, Patrick 201–14 Le Tyran éternel 201, 205–6, 210, 211–12 grief 24, 29, 74, 81–2 Grimbert, Philippe 141–60 Un Secret 143, 144, 146–8, 149, 150, 151, 153–5, 156–7, 159 guilt cultures 2, 15–17, 20, 28 guilty heroine, figure of 27–9, 83, 104–5, 107–9 hallucination 78 haptic visuality 193, 195 haunting 19, 71, 79, 127–8, 153, 163 221 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 166, 169, 171 Hermite, Tristan, L’ 71–86 La Mariane 79–82 history continuum of 168–74 honneur see honour honour 28, 31–50, 51–69, 92, 117 humiliation 1, 15, 18, 27–8, 32, 40–1, 45, 147, 184 identity familial 24–6, 133, 194, 198, 203 feminine 26, 51–70, 177–88, 189–200 individual 21, 22, 152, 192, 194 masculine 6, 15–30, 31–50 postcolonial 201–14 and relation to guilt 78, 146 social 15–17, 21, 22, 195, 199 impardonnable 113–24 imprescriptible 113–24 intersubjectivité 115 intertextuality 9, 162–3, 175 Irigaray, Luce 11, 177–88, 189–200 Jankélévitch, Vladimir 10, 116–17, 120 justice 18, 36, 47, 114, 144 Kafka, Franz 164–72 kinship 16–17, 21–2 knight 7, 24, 31–49, 55, 62, 104 Lacan, Jacques 3, 4, 5, 186 La Fille du Comte de Pontieu 6–7, 15–29 Leys, Ruth 1–2, linguistique 33, 87–99 looking and seeing 2, 162, 168, 175, 195–6, 201–2, 210 looking-glass 11, 191–3, 199 Lorris, Guillaume de 52, 57–60, 64, 67–8 see also Roman de la Rose Index 222 Marks, Laura U 195 masculinity 6–8, 15–29, 53–5, 57, 62, 64, 67–8, 104, 136–7 see also identity, masculine; sexuality; subjectivity mediation 10, 164–75 Melusine, mythical figure of 107–9, 111 mémoire see memory memory 9–10, 123, 130–2, 136, 138, 144–5, 147–8, 151, 155–7, 159, 189, 194–5, 196, 199 see also amnesia Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 4–5, 190, 197 Merlin, figure of 32, 35–6, 38, 45–8 Meun, Jean de 52, 60, 64–8 see also Roman de la Rose Molière 75–7 moralité see morality morality 1–2, 5–8, 11, 16, 18, 31–3, 46, 52, 74, 74, 94–5, 107, 110, 115–16, 143, 189 Moréas, Jean 9, 101–12 Moreau, Gustave 9, 101–12 Morvern Callar 11, 189–200 mourning 29, 175, 198–9 Musulman, figure of 2, 5, 123 myth 141, 202–3 classical 9, 71, 81–2, 83–4, 92, 101–12 medieval 7, 31–50, 59 mythos et logos 126, 134 nain 31–50 Nancy, Jean-Luc 10, 127–30 Nietszche, Friedrich 1, 5, oblivion 11, 148, 157, 162, 171–2 Occupation, French 141–60 Other, concept of 2, 3–4, 12, 16, 20–1, 158, 161–4, 186–7, 192–4, 199, 202–4, 206–14 Ovid 104–5, 109 pardon 10, 34, 92, 113–24, 189 parole 35, 45–6, 87–99, 120 perspective 151, 167, 174 Phèdre 71, 81–2, 83–4 myth of 92, 134 phenomenology 170, 190, 193 place 61, 65, 78, 150, 164–5, 167–9, 172–5, 180, 185, 189, 193, 198–9, 211–13 Plato 92, 133–5 Polyphemus, mythical figure of 104–6, 109–10 proximity 165, 174, 182, 193 Psyché, figure of 10, 125–40 psychoanalysis 2–3, 27, 141, 144–5, 155–6, 159, 186 punishment 3, 12, 35, 17–18, 24, 76–7, 80, 107, 119–20, 203 punition see punishment race 201–14 Racine, Jean 71–86 see also Phèdre rape 23–5, 28, 52, 54–7, 61–2, 67 reconstitution 158 redemption 34–5, 82, 98, 107, 164 regulation 3–4, 59, 178, 180–1, 184 relationality 3, 7, 12, 19, 71–86, 114–15, 136, 143, 146, 149, 158, 161–4, 168, 168–71, 174, 186, 209 relationships 20, 22, 32, 72, 75–6, 81–2, 152–3, 181, 189–200, 205–6 réparation 32, 113–24 repentance 18, 41, 75–6, 82, 118–22 see also réparation repetition 45, 143, 154–9 representation 7–9, 94, 131–2, 141–3, 148– 50, 154–5, 157–8, 167–76, 178–9, 184–5, 189–90, 192, 201–14 Index reputation 27, 31, 33–4, 42 réputation see reputation responsabilité see responsibility responsibility 7, 18–22, 46, 75, 83, 150, 170–1 re-telling 25–6, 151–2, 154–9 see also reconstitution rhétorique 46, 87–99 Roman de la rose 7, 13, 51–69 Rotrou, Jean 71–86 Cosroès 71, 78–9, 81, 82–3 Salome 79–80, 106–7 Sassine, Williams 201–14 Mémoire d’une peau 200, 205–6, 212–13 Wirriyamu 202, 204, 207–8, 211 scrutiny 12, 201 secret 83, 135, 137, 141–3, 148–60, 199–200 see also witness sécret see secret self 2–4, 8–9, 16–21, 28, 132, 146, 186, 193–4, 207–11, 213 see also identity; subjectivity sensation 168, 179–81, 186, 195–6 sexuality 27, 51–7, 68, 189, 192–3, 207 shame allegorical figure of 7, 51–70 cultures 2, 15–17, 18–22, 28, 31 Shoah 116, 147 sight see vision; looking and seeing silence 11, 27, 46, 65–6, 94–5, 142, 145, 147, 177–88, 191, 194, 198 skin 181–8, 202–3, 210 Sobchack,Vivian 177–80, 190 social structures 3, 6–7, 8, 17–20, 21–2, 28, 31, 33–6, 56 refusal of 77, 118, 169, 178–80, 180–1, 184, 193–4, 199, 212–13 sound 11, 178–87, 191, 196–9 223 spectator 2, 72–3, 79, 85, 182, 190–3, 196–8 spectatorship 193, 195 subjectivity 1, 5, 9, 11–12, 16, 177–9, 184, 186, 189, 191 feminine 11, 189, 191 medieval 16, 17 Suite vulgate, La 7, 31–50 Symbolism 9, 101–2, 105 temporality 7, 16, 32, 36, 71–86, 98, 130, 136, 145–6, 151–3, 158, 164, 166–9, 171, 174 temps see temporality testimony 5, 150, 159 theatre 165, 170 17th century neo-classical 7, 71–86 threat 12, 25, 29, 54, 59, 56–7, 101, 106–7, 181, 189, 207, 209, 212–14 time see temporality torture 1–2, 165 touch 11, 127–9, 136–7, 175, 178–9, 182, 185, 189–90, 192, 194–7, 199–200 transgression 7, 11–12, 19–21, 24, 31, 33–5, 74, 77, 102, 106, 111, 178–88, 189–200 trauma 1–2, 9–10, 13, 36, 123, 142, 144–8, 155, 157, 161–76, 198 Tristan et Iseut 6, 18–22 Van, Marina de 11, 177–88 Dans ma peau 11, 177–88 vision 4–5, 11–12, 36, 47, 58, 76, 80, 104, 107, 115, 161–2, 168, 171, 180, 182, 186, 192, 199 witness 10, 143, 148–50, 154–5, 157, 159, 161–76 witnessing see witness wound 15, 110–11, 181–6 Modern French Identities Edited by Peter Collier This series aims to publish monographs, editions or collections of papers based on recent research into modern French Literature It welcomes contributions from academics, researchers and writers in British and Irish 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Singer, Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures’, in G Piers and Milton B Singer, Shame and Guilt: A Psychoanalytic and a Cultural Study (New York: Norton, 1971), 59 Guilt, Shame and Masculine Insufficiency... between shame and guilt are actually stronger than the differences between them See: Singer, Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures’ in Piers and Singer, Shame and Guilt: A Psychoanalytic and a Cultural... references and index ISBN 978-3-03911-563-1 (alk paper) French literature History and criticism Ethics in literature Literature and morals Art and morals Guilt in literature Shame in literature