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Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition.
Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault),
2015.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Through Smoking Pyres; 1. Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves: Violence, Sex, and Recursive Desire in Epic Tradition; 2. Warda and Worca: Oral Epics and Preoedipal Concerns; 3. Twice Faithless Troy: The Happy Substitute; 4. Fierce Loves and Faithless Wars: Milton, Macpherson, and the Inverted Epic; 5. With Half Unravel'd Web: The Fragmented Epic; 6. Sleeping with the Enemy: Women and Epic; 7. In This Late Century: Radical Pluralism and the Future of Epos; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.