Dreams of the burning child
Subtitle: sacrificial sons and the father's witness
By: David Lee Miller.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Fathers and sons in literature; Death in literature; Literature -- History and criticism; Child sacrifice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the body of fatherhood; title: The deified father and the sacrificial son; title: Virgil's Aeneid : the history of a wound; title: Witnessing as theater in Shakespeare; title: Charles Dickens : a dead hand at a baby; title: Jonson, Freud, and Lacan : this moving dream; title: Mourning patriarchy : a return to the crossroads.