TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,David Lee
TI  - Dreams of the burning child: sacrificial sons and the father's witness 
SN  - 9781501728846
AV  - PN56.F37 M55 2003
U1  - 809.933520431 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Fathers and sons in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Child sacrifice
KW  - Pères et fils dans la littérature
KW  - Mort dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Sacrifice d'enfants
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Subjects & Themes
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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