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Author:

Miller, David Lee, 1951-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fathers and sons in literature.
Death in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Child sacrifice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780801440571 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801440572 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49773713

LCCN:

2002007037

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)