Dreams of the burning child : sacrificial sons and the father's witness

Abraham Achebe Achebe's Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Anchises aqedah Ascanius Ben Jonson binding of Isaac body burning child calls chapter Chinua Achebe Christ Christian contradiction Creusa culture dead death desire Dickens Dickens's Dombey Dombey and Son dream Edited emotional epic Eucharist fantasy father fatherhood fiction figure filial sacrifice Foxe's Freud gaze Gospels grief Hamlet Hector historicism horror human Igbo imaginary imagine Isaac Jesus Jonson killing Lacan Leontes literary little Paul loss Mamillius Marcellus masculine mirror mother motif mourning narrative Okonkwo once Pallas passage passion paternity pathos patriarchal patrilineal Pietà play poem Politës Priam puer senex Pyrrhus question reversal rhetorical ritual Roman sacrificed scene seems sense Shakespeare social son's sons spectacle Statius status story structure symbolic economy takes theater tion tradition transformation Translated trauma Trojan Troy turns University Press Virgil Winter's Tale witness wound writing