Grief Taboo in American Literature : : Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / / Pamela A. Boker.

• VerfasserIn: Boker, Pamela A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Berman, Jeffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Psychoanalysis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In this feminist rereading, Pamela A. Boker examines the prolonged adolescence of the American male in the works of three quintessential American male authors, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway, through a highly original psychoanalytic inquiry. Challenging conventional interpretation...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. "Circle-Sailing": The Eternal Return of Tabooed Grief in Melville's Moby-Dick
• 2. "My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It": Deprivation-Grief and the Making of an American Humorist
• 3. "Blessed are they that mourn, for they— they—": Repressed Grief and Pathological Mourning in Mark Twain's Fiction
• 4. Huckleberry Finn's Anti-Oedipus Complex: Father-Loss and Mother-Hunger in the Great American Novel
• 5. The Shaping of Hemingway's Art of Repressed Grief: Mother-Loss and Father- Hunger from In Our Time to Winner Take Nothing
• 6. "Ether in the Brain": Blunting the Edges of Perception in Hemingway's Middle Period
• 7. Grief Hoarders and "Beat-Up Old Bastards55: Hemingway's Bittersweet Taste of Nostalgia
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index