Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness /
by Miller, David Lee.
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003Description: xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0801440572 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Child sacrifice | Literature -- History and criticism | Death in literature | Fathers and sons in literature
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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