Title Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness / David Lee Miller

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages : illustrations) Series JSTOR EBA 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-234) and index Subject Child sacrifice. Death in literature. Fathers and sons in literature. Literature -- History and criticism. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002007037 ISBN 1501728849 (electronic bk.) 9781501728846 (electronic bk.)

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