... and purpose are played out. The waves of so-called beach shaming that occurred during the early months of the global coronavirus pandemic have located, yet again, the beach as a key battleground in contemporary cultural politics. The mixture of tortured passivity and muted acceptance among the characters...

... that there are no model sons who are more capable of mounting a filial revolt than a heterogeneous breed of variously undutiful sons, or as I call them, for reasons that will become clear in due course, sons of a beach. All these films, and particularly Man of Ashes , paint the broad strokes of Bouzid’s cinematic...

.... 2001 . “ Stigma and Shame as Barriers to Sexually Transmitted Disease Testing: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic and Age Differences among Teenagers and Young Adults .” MS Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Nuland S. 2006 . “ Even Maimonides Would Agree: Hazardous Rite Should...

... that he was a despot. Thus in Hiero there is no shame attached to being a despot; what interests Xenophon is Hiero’s paradoxes. The Circle, in contrast, misrecognizes itself as a democratic structure, while “tyranny” is externalized and projected onto other times and spaces. But misrecognition itself...

... installation entitled Blackboat (1999), Vivan Sundaram strips down the frame of a beached boat and suspends it along a vertical axis, thereby exposing, through an act of artistic violence, the essentially architectonic form of the vessel. Positioned outside the National Gallery of Modern Art in Port-of-Spain...

..., strengthens his assumed connection to a much colder (healthier) Norway. In this discourse of a nostalgic longing for Norway, the cold North is repositioned as healthy, and the strangeness of the warm climate is made visible in photographs of the twins playing on the beach in December wearing red Santa hats...

... [1951]: 54) Despite the Luftwaffe ’s deadly raids, Robbie survives and, at the end of Part Two of Atonement , reaches the beach at Dunkirk. Though delirious from hunger and from an infected wound, as he slips into unconsciousness at the end of the section he is heartened by the news that he...

..., and Mrs. Chatfield rounds on him with: “for shame, Mr Humbert! The poor boy has just been killed in Korea” (p. 288). The episode fits in with the whole final movement of the book, in which Humbert Humbert turns upon himself in bitter-seeming judgement on his own betrayal of Lolita, and of the country...