The grief taboo in American literature: loss and prolonged adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway

"Circle-sailing" : the eternal return of tabooed grief in Melville's Moby-Dick

"My first lie, and how I got out of it" : deprivation-grief and the making of an American humorist

"Blessed are they that mourn, for they

they

" : repressed grief and pathological mourning in Mark Twain's fiction

Huckleberry Finn's anti-Oedipus complex : father-loss and mother-hunger in the great American novel

The shaping of Hemingway's art of repressed grief : mother-loss and father-hunger from In our time to Winner take nothing

"Ether in the brain" : blunting the edges of perception in Hemingway's middle period

Grief hoarders and "beat-up old bastards" : Hemingway's bittersweet taste of nostalgia.