The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Literature and psychoanalysis ;
8. |
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Table of 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.