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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sensitive son and the feminine ideal in literature
    sub title: writers from Rousseau to Roth
  name:
    name part: Tuman, Myron C.
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 269 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman - one sometimes modeled on their own mother - forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives. Myron Tuman explores the theory that there is an underlying psychological type, the sensitive son, connecting these otherwise diverse writers. The volume starts and ends with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Confessions provides an early portrait of one such son. There are chapters on other adoring sons, Stendhal, Sacher-Masoch, Scott Fitzgerald, and Turgenev, as well as on sons like Bernard Shaw and D.H. Lawrence with a different, less affectionate psychological disposition toward women. This book demonstrates how, despite many differences, the best works of all these sensitive sons reflect the deep, contorted nature of their desire, a longing that often seems less for an actual woman than for an elusive feminine ideal.
  table of contents: Introduction - Hector's helmet -- Getting started - Roth, Proust, Freud, and Rousseau -- The adoring son in love, 1 - Rousseau -- Another stolen ribbon - Mozart and Kierkegaard -- The sorrows of a young son - Goethe -- Pygmalion in love - Bernard Shaw -- The narcissistic son - Freud and da Vinci -- The masochist son - Sacher-Masoch -- The uneasy son - Fitzgerald and Lawrence -- The bachelor son - Stendhal and Schopenhauer -- The sensitive son's midlife crisis - Hazlitt and Rousseau -- The dutiful son - Flaubert -- The adoring son in love, 2 - Turgenev -- The sensitive son in old age - Rousseau.
  note: Myron Tuman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Male authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Male authors
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and sons in literature
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Male authors
  subject:
    topic: Male authors
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and sons in literature
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  classification: PN56.5.M68 T86 2019
  classification: 809.89286
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sensitive son and the feminine ideal in literature
    name:
      name part: Tuman, Myron C., 1946-
    origin info:
      publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1101101082
  identifier: 3030157008
  identifier: 3030157032
  identifier: 9783030157005
  identifier: 9783030157036
  identifier: 9783030157012
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 190517
    record change date: 20250318223625.8
    record identifier: in00004170238
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng