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

Published New York : New York University Press, [1996]

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Description 1 online resource Series Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8 Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8. 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index Notes Print version record Subject Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Psychology Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Psychology Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Psychology SUBJECT Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 fast Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast Subject 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. American fiction -- History and criticism Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States -- History American fiction Adolescence in literature American fiction -- Male authors Grief in literature Loss (Psychology) in literature Masculinity in literature Men in literature Psychoanalysis and literature Psychological fiction, American Psychology Repression (Psychology) in literature Literatur Kummer Motiv United States USA Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814723463 0814723462

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