The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway

The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / Pamela A. Boker.

Author/creator	Boker, Pamela A., 1955-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : New York University Press, ©1996.
Description	xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Knowledge --Psychology. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge --Psychology. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Knowledge --Psychology. American fiction--Male authors --History and criticism. Grief in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature--United States --History. Masculinity in literature. Repression (Psychology) in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Adolescence in literature.

Series	Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8 Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8. ^A314527
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
LCCN	95004390
ISBN	0814712282 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS374.G75 B65 1996	✔ Available	Place Hold