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

Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / James M. Wilce.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, MA : 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.