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 perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity.
David Lee Miller
Dreams of the Burning Child
Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness
Dreams of the Burning Child
Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 256 ● ISBN 9781501728846 ● Dateigröße 27.6 MB ● Verlag Cornell University Press ● Ort Ithaca ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 6432830 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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