EAN: 9783030157005

THE SENSITIVE SON AND THE FEMININE IDEAL IN LIT...

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.

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