Recursive Desire : Rereading Epic Tradition

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downes, Jeremy M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Epic literature.
Desire in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Desir dans la litterature.
Litterature epique > Histoire et critique.
Epic literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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