The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology
Boys and Their Fathers
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, Shakespeare’s Hamlet , and Nietzsche. By focusing on the issue of a boy’s emotional development, this book attempts to re-establish the value of a broadly psychological approach to understanding stuttering.
| Autor: | Tuman, Myron |
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| ISBN: | 9783031100413 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 229 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.11.2023 |
| Untertitel: | Boys and Their Fathers |
| Schlagworte: | Literature, Science and Medicine Studies Literature and Childhood Literature and Disability Studies cognitive literary studies masculinity studies speech disorders speech pathology |
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