Translations of Power Narcissim and the Unconscious in Epic History

• Main Author: Bellamy, Elizabeth J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2019
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Epic poetry; Epic poetry-History and criticism; European poetry; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary Studies; Narcissism in literature; Psychoanalysis in literature; Subconsciousness in literature

Elizabeth J. Bellamy here casts new theoretical light on the Renaissance genre of the dynastic epic. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to illuminate the emergence of an epic "subjecthood," she focuses on Virgil's Aeneid, Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Tasso's Ger...