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The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway
- Title
- The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / Pamela A. Boker.
- Author
- Boker, Pamela A., 1955-
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c1996.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 357 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8
- Subjects
- American fiction > Men authors > History and criticism
- Psychoanalysis and literature > United States > History
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 > Knowledge > Psychology
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Knowledge > Psychology
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 > Knowledge > Psychology
- Grief in literature
- Repression (Psychology) in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Adolescence in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
- Contents
- "Circle-sailing" : the eternal return of tabooed grief in Melville's Moby-Dick -- "My first lie, and how I got out of it" : deprivation-grief and the making of an American humorist -- "Blessed are they that mourn, for they-- they--" : repressed grief and pathological mourning in Mark Twain's fiction -- Huckleberry Finn's anti-Oedipus complex : father-loss and mother-hunger in the great American novel -- The shaping of Hemingway's art of repressed grief : mother-loss and father-hunger from In our time to Winner take nothing -- "Ether in the brain" : blunting the edges of perception in Hemingway's middle period -- Grief hoarders and "beat-up old bastards" : Hemingway's bittersweet taste of nostalgia.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-52
- ISBN
- 0814712282 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95004390
- OCLC
- 32550126
- Author
- Boker, Pamela A., 1955-
- Title
- The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / Pamela A. Boker.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c1996.
- Series
- Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-52