{"product_id":"dreams-of-the-burning-child-david-lee-miller-9780801440571","title":"Dreams of the Burning Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDreams of the Burning Child\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eAeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDombey and Son\u003c\/i\u003e with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe's \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Lee Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801440572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801440571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.36w x 0.85d","brand":"David Lee Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425064403199,"sku":"9780801440571","price":72.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c613912c-d050-414a-9fc9-c70409704b09.jpg?v=1761536763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dreams-of-the-burning-child-david-lee-miller-9780801440571","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}