The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology: Boys and Their Fathers

by Myron Tuman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031100417
• ISBN13: 9783031100413
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"