Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father''s Witness
ISBN: 9781501728846
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Fathers and sons in literature; Death in literature; Literature -- History and criticism; Child sacrifice;

In Dreams of the Burning Child , David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet...


David Lee Miller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 'Faerie Queene' as well as coeditor of several books, including The Production of English Renaissance Culture , also from Cornell.

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