David Lee Miller 
Dreams of the Burning Child [PDF ebook] 
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 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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David Lee Miller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 ‘Faerie Queene’ as well as coeditor of several books, including The Production of English Renaissance Culture, also from Cornell.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781501728846 ● Taille du fichier 27.6 MB ● Maison d’édition Cornell University Press ● Lieu Ithaca ● Pays US ● Publié 2018 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6432830 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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