Stuttering son in literature and psychology [electronic resource] : boys and their fathers / Myron Tuman.

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Stuttering son in literature and psychology [electronic resource] : boys and their fathers / Myron Tuman.

9783031100390 (electronic bk.)
3031100395 (electronic bk.)
3031100387
9783031100383

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-10039-0 doi

PN56.F37

809.93355

The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather to John Updike, were themselves stutterers; for two others, Melville and Kafka, the focus shifts to how similar family tensions contributed to their interest in the related condition of anorexia. A final section looks at the patricidal impulse lurking behind much of this analysis, as evident in Dostoyevsky, Shakespeares Hamlet, and Nietzsche. By focusing on the issue of a boys emotional development, this book attempts to re-establish the value of a broadly psychological approach to understanding stuttering. Myron Tuman was a professor of English at universities in West Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana. His work on male writers and their mothers, The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) follows earlier studies of male writers and their sons, Melvilles Gay Father, and female writers and their fathers, Don Juan and His Daughter.

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STUTTERING SON IN LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY.

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