The grief taboo in American literature
Subtitle: loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway
By: Pamela A. Boker.
Series: Literature and psychoanalysis ;; 8
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Grief in literature; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States; Repression (Psychology) in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature; Masculinity in literature; Adolescence in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Circle-sailing" : the eternal return of tabooed grief in Melville's Moby-Dick; title: "My first lie, and how I got out of it" : deprivation-grief and the making of an American humorist; title: "Blessed are they that mourn, for they; title: they; title: " : repressed grief and pathological mourning in Mark Twain's fiction; title: Huckleberry Finn's anti-Oedipus complex : father-loss and mother-hunger in the great American novel; title: The shaping of Hemingway's art of repressed grief : mother-loss and father-hunger from In our time to Winner take nothing; title: "Ether in the brain" : blunting the edges of perception in Hemingway's middle period; title: Grief hoarders and "beat-up old bastards" : Hemingway's bittersweet taste of nostalgia.