The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology: Boys and Their Fathers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031100383)

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.

Author: Myron Tuman
ISBN-10: 3031100387
ISBN-13: 9783031100383
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d