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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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Autor principal: Downes, Jeremy M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2015.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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