Download or read book Recursive Desire written by Jeremy M. Downes and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recursive Desire rereads the epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and highlights its vital, shifting, polyvocal array (and disarray) of textual forces.