{"product_id":"9783031100383","title":"The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology : Boys and Their Fathers","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Son Who Stutters.- 2. Stuttering Orators and Their Counterparts.- 3. Five Victorian Sons.- 4. Four Modern Sons.- Part II: The Son with Other Challenges.- 5. The Guilty Son.- 6. The Anorexic Son.- 7. 7. The Patricidal Son.- 8. Afterword.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMyron Tuman\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor of English at universities in West Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana. His work on male writers and their mothers, \u003ci\u003eThe Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan 2019) follows earlier studies of male writers and their sons, \u003ci\u003eMelville's Gay Father\u003c\/i\u003e, and female writers and their fathers, \u003ci\u003eDon Juan and His Daughter.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48846258077931,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":238.03,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031100383","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}