Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic TraditionUniversity of Alabama Press, 30.04.1997 - 320 Seiten Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulness of such simplistic explanations of epic is readily apparent when confronted with the continuing production of epic poetry long after its so-called death; when confronted with the contemporary drive toward epic among women poets, people of color, and postcolonial poets; and when faced with epic's fundamentally recursive desire--obvious in oral epic, but common to the entire genre--to repeat rather than to kill or evade its precursors. |
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Oral Epics and Preoedipal Concerns | 24 |
The Happy Substitute | 61 |
Milton Macpherson | 111 |
Urheberrecht | |
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