Dreams of the Burning Child : Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness /

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In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, David Lee, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Death in literature.
Child sacrifice.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > General.
Sacrifice d'enfants.
Litterature > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans la litterature.
Peres et fils dans la litterature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the body of fatherhood
  • The deified father and the sacrificial son
  • Virgil's Aeneid : the history of a wound
  • Witnessing as theater in Shakespeare
  • Charles Dickens : a dead hand at a baby
  • Jonson, Freud, and Lacan : this moving dream
  • Mourning patriarchy : a return to the crossroads.

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