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The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / Pamela A. Boker
(Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8)

Material Type Books
Publisher New York : New York University Press
Year c1996
Language English
Size xiii, 357 p. ; 24 cm

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B2F stack room : pbk 930.29/B 1210002520
0814713149

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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
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Authors  *Boker, Pamela A., 1955-
Subjects LCSH:American fiction -- Men authors -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
LCSH:Grief in literature
LCSH:Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Psychology  All Subject Search
LCSH:Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Psychology  All Subject Search
LCSH:Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Psychology  All Subject Search
LCSH:Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Masculinity (Psychology) in literature
LCSH:Repression (Psychology) in literature
LCSH:Loss (Psychology) in literature
LCSH:Adolescence in literature
Classification LCC:PS374.G75
DC20:810.9/353
NDC8:930.29
ID 6000298981
ISBN 0814713149
NCID BA26355209

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