Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness /
Miller, David Lee, 1951-
Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness / David Lee Miller. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
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.
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.
9781501728846 (electronic bk.) 1501728849 (electronic bk.)
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Fathers and sons in literature.
Death in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Child sacrifice.
Pères et fils dans la littérature.
Mort dans la littérature.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.
Sacrifice d'enfants.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Subjects & Themes--General.
Child sacrifice.
Death in literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.F37 / M55 2003
809.933520431
Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness / David Lee Miller. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
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.
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.
9781501728846 (electronic bk.) 1501728849 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctv2dvx4v JSTOR
GBA2U7920 bnb
Fathers and sons in literature.
Death in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Child sacrifice.
Pères et fils dans la littérature.
Mort dans la littérature.
Littérature--Histoire et critique.
Sacrifice d'enfants.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Subjects & Themes--General.
Child sacrifice.
Death in literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN56.F37 / M55 2003
809.933520431