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- catalog abstract "Recursive Desire rereads epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and open up unexplored fields of endeavor to students of epic, of poetry, and of narrative. With its more powerful and comprehensive psychological model of poetic relations, the book provides readers with a new understanding of epic poetry and its vital, shifting, polyvocal array - and disarray - of textual forces.".
- catalog contributor b10351504.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-298) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: Through Smoking Pyres -- 1. Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves: Violence, Sex, and Recursive Desire in Epic Tradition -- 2. Worda and Worca: Oral Epics and Preoedipal Concerns -- 3. Twice Faithless Troy: The Happy Substitute -- 4. Fierce Loves and Faithless Wars: Milton, Macpherson, and the Inverted Epic -- 5. With Half Unravel'd Web: The Fragmented Epic -- 6. Sleeping with the Enemy: Women and Epic -- 7. In This Late Century: Radical Pluralism and the Future of Epos.".
- catalog description "Recursive Desire rereads epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and open up unexplored fields of endeavor to students of epic, of poetry, and of narrative. With its more powerful and comprehensive psychological model of poetic relations, the book provides readers with a new understanding of epic poetry and its vital, shifting, polyvocal array - and disarray - of textual forces.".
- catalog extent "xii, 305 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Recursive desire.".
- catalog identifier "0817308415 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Recursive desire.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,".
- catalog relation "Recursive desire.".
- catalog subject "809.1/3209353 20".
- catalog subject "Desire in literature.".
- catalog subject "Epic literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN56.E65 D69 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Through Smoking Pyres -- 1. Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves: Violence, Sex, and Recursive Desire in Epic Tradition -- 2. Worda and Worca: Oral Epics and Preoedipal Concerns -- 3. Twice Faithless Troy: The Happy Substitute -- 4. Fierce Loves and Faithless Wars: Milton, Macpherson, and the Inverted Epic -- 5. With Half Unravel'd Web: The Fragmented Epic -- 6. Sleeping with the Enemy: Women and Epic -- 7. In This Late Century: Radical Pluralism and the Future of Epos.".
- catalog title "Recursive desire : rereading epic tradition / Jeremy M. Downes.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".