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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Downes, Jeremy M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 usefulness of such simplistic explanations of epic is readily apparent when confronted with the continuing production of epic poetry long after its so-called death; when confronted with the contemporary drive toward epic among women poets, people of color, and postcolonial poets; and when faced with epic's.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (319 pages).
ISBN:9780817388867