Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number UPD-00000144196 Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20090716214352.0 General Information 080209s1996 nyu 000 eng International Standard Book Number 0814712282 (alk. paper) Language Code eng Local Call Number PS 374 G75 B65 Main Entry - Personal Name Boker, Pamela A., 1955- Title Statement The grief taboo in American literature : loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway / Pamela A. Boker Physical Description xiii, 357 p. ; 24 cm Series Statement Literature and psychoanalysis ; 8 Formatted Contents Note "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 Subject Added Entry - Personal Name Hemingway, Ernest -- 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Psychology   Melville, Herman -- 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Psychology   Twain, Mark -- 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Psychology Subject Added Entry - Topical Term *American fiction -- Men authors -- History and criticism   Adolescence in literature   Grief in literature   Loss (Psychology) in literature   Masculinity (Psychology) in literature   Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States -- History   Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism   Repression (Psychology) in literature Collection Category FO Format Paper Location UP DCAL PS 374 G75 B65 00055431 Regular Circulation CAL-2851 Textual Physical Form Designator Book           Physical Location University of the Philippines Diliman: College of Arts and Letters PS 374 G75 B65           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC