The Adolescent in American Fiction

Carpenter, Frederic I.

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“…2.2. Holden's dual nature Frederic I Carpenter (1957) describes Holden as "a boy who is badly mixed up" (12). David D. Galloway (1970) calls Holden a "misfit hero" (Galloway 227)…”

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Repressed Sexuality and Quest for Identity in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

2020

BODHI TARU

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To create a fulfilling life, any young adult needs to embark on a journey of transformation and self-discovery, but such a healthy development was hampered in the life of the protagonist Holden in the story The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger due to unexpected conflicts or maladjustments crept into his life. The present study investigates the psychic turbulence of the protagonist to trace the teenage problems, especially the hidden sexuality and quest for identity. By applying psychoanalytical methods and gender theory, the study has tried to serve some moral and spiritual enlightenment and also reveal the pathetic plight of a young adult caught in labyrinth repression. Troubled young adults like Holden can attain self-realization and social adjustment only thorough love, kindness, and support from humankind.

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“…2.2. Holden's dual nature Frederic I Carpenter (1957) describes Holden as "a boy who is badly mixed up" (12). David D. Galloway (1970) calls Holden a "misfit hero" (Galloway 227)…”

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Repressed Sexuality and Quest for Identity in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

2020

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“…Symbolism and depth psychology are as much a method of fiction as they are of science, and the counselor who sees only what he has been taught to see, or worse, who denies there is anything particular to see, will never understand deeply enough. But the counselor who confronts adolescents in fiction will discover, with Frederick Carpenter (1957), that books about immaturity are not necessarily immature and that many"... American novels about adolescence have embodied some of the most adult wisdom that America has produced." I feel certain that both Freud and Carpenter would agree that the novels listed in the following brief bibliography contain a great deal of adult wisdom, and that the testimony of their authors should be rated high by those who work with young people.…”

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The Valuable Allies

Spithill

1968

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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The primary reason tor a counselor's existence is to foster, through understanding and acceptance, the development of individuals. When the individuals are adolescents the task is trying, because most adults have difficulty identifying with the "real irks" of the adolescent's existence. The personal, educational, and historical reasons for this difficulty are examined. A suggestion, originally made by Freud, is reiterated to help the counselor explore the worlds of youth. The important point is that, for those who would truly know adolescents, psychology and literature ought to be fellow disciplines. The psychologist discovered the adolescent, but it is the novelist who defines him. A bibliography of "proper information" (fictional sources) is included.STORY TELLERS are valuable allies, and their testimony is to be rated high, for they actually know many things between heaven and earth that our academic wisdom does not even dream of.

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A History of the Bildungsroman

2018

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For Mikhail Bakhtin, looking back across the development of the European novel during the Second World War, the Bildungsroman is a subset of a group of novelistic forms that mediate a relationship to the historical real. The Bildungsroman, for Bakhtin, is unique in its proper situation of individual emergence within historical time. Exemplified by Goethe in the fragment of Bakhtin's work that has survived, it presents the individual 'no longer within an epoch, but between two epochs, at the transition point from one to the other. The transition is accomplished in him and through him. He is forced to become a new, unprecedented human being.' 1 For Franco Moretti, the Bildungsroman mediates the relation between individual desires and socially determined identities, necessitated by the proliferating instabilities that characterise the bourgeois epoch: 'In all its diverse manifestations, the Bildungsroman has always held fast to the notion that the biography of a young individual was the most meaningful viewpoint for the understanding and the evaluation of history.' 2 These two related perspectives on the development of the European novel, though fifty years lie between them, share a common reduction. They idealise an individual for whom gendersex is not fully a component of social struggle.This reduction becomes most obvious in Moretti's reading of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, a novel he determines to be 'infantile' and 'fairy-talelike' (187). For Moretti, Jane's flight from Thornfield is not a stage on her journey to self, her experience of competing narratives of femininity and intellectual life, but a specifically English failure of the novelistic form. 'Any Bildungsroman worthy of the name would have had Jane remain among the needles of Thornfield . . .. facing the imperfect, debatable and perhaps incorrect nature of each fundamental ethical choice' (188). The implication is clear: 'fundamental ethical choices' do not include the 239

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The Adolescent in American Fiction

Cited by 25 publications

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Repressed Sexuality and Quest for Identity in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Repressed Sexuality and Quest for Identity in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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