Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness
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...
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 239 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
9780801440571, 0801440572
231976218
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.