Apuros sociales, vergüenza ajena, y situaciones embarazosas

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Embarrassment

 

 

Froming, W. J., et al. "The Influence of Public Self-Consciousness and the Audience's Characteristics on Withdrawal from Embarrassing Situations." Journal of Personality 58 (1990): 603-22.

Goffman, Erving. "Embarrassment and Social Organization." American Journal of Sociology 62.3 (November 1956): 264-74.

____. "Embarrassment and Social Organization." In Goffman, Interaction Ritual 1967. New York: Random House-Pantheon, 1982. 97-112.*

Kurc, Martha, ed.That Reminds Me... Canada's Authors Relive Their Most Embarrassing Moments. Stoddart, 1990.

Kuzmics, Helmut. "Embarrassment and Civilization: on some Similarities and Differences in the Work of Goffman and Elias." In Erving Goffman. Ed. Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W. H. Smith. 4 vols. (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought). London: SAGE, 2000.

Ricks, Christopher. Keats and Embarrassment. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.

Schudson, Michael. "Embarrassment and Erving Goffman's Idea of Human Nature." In Erving Goffman. Ed. Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W. H. Smith. 4 vols. (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought). London: SAGE, 2000.

Visser, Margaret. "Blush, Cringe, Fidget." In That Reminds Me... Canada's Authors Relive Their Most Embarrassing Moments. Ed. Martha Kurc. Stoddart, 1990. Rpt. in Visser, The Way We Are.

 

 

 

Literature

 

James, Henry. Embarrassments. 1896.

 

 

 

See also Bashfulness.