Title
The Shaping of Hemingway’s Art of Repressed Grief: Mother-Loss and Father-Hunger from In Our Time to Winner Take Nothing
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Feminist-psychological approach exploring “the paralyzing effects of adolescent idealism and the repression of grief” in both Hemingway’s life and works. Examines how Hemingway’s artistic creation helped him to deal indirectly with expressing his feelings associated with the emotional pain that comes with growing up. Studies the early works in terms of the male protagonists’ inability to break from the mother and accept the disillusionments that are a normal part of maturing.
Published in
The Grief Taboo in American Literature: Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway
Date
1996
Pages
166-206
COinS
Citation
Boker, Pamela A. “The Shaping of Hemingway’s Art of Repressed Grief: Mother-Loss and Father-Hunger from In Our Time to Winner Take Nothing.” In The Grief Taboo in American Literature: Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway, 166-206. New York: New York University Press, 1996.