Recursive desire
Subtitle: rereading epic tradition
By: Jeremy M. Downes.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Epic literature -- History and criticism.; Desire in literature.
Description: Recursive Desire rereads epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and open up unexplored fields of endeavor to students of epic, of poetry, and of narrative. With its more powerful and comprehensive psychological model of poetic relations, the book provides readers with a new understanding of epic poetry and its vital, shifting, polyvocal array - and disarray - of textual forces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-298) and index.