Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Why Male Shame? – Social and Historical Conditions of Shame – Exposing and Uncovering Shame in Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy – The Shame of Being a Man in Philip Roth’s Everyman and Portnoy’s Complaint – Shame and Degradation in Raz. Dwa. Trzy – Conclusion and Implications for Practice.

About the Author

Aneta Stępień holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Surrey. She coordinates Polish Studies in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches Polish culture and literature, East Central European Studes and gender. She is also working on a research project about the Yiddish modernist writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.