Birth passages
Subtitle: maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare
By: Theresa M. Krier.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Mothers in literature.; Motherhood in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: HAZARDS OF BIRTH; title: 1. Cradle and All; title: Mythopoeic Mothers and Tropes of Generation; title: Weathering Birth; title: 2. Aggressive Movements in Psychoanalysis: Klein,; title: Winnicott, and Irigaray; title: Conserving Winnicott; title: Theoretical Responses to Catastrophe; title: Range of Motion; title: PART Two: GENERATIONS OF BLAZONS; title: 3. The Providence of Similitude in the Song of Songs; title: Mothering and the Song's Creatural Object World; title: Metonymy and Winnicottian Aggression; title: 4. The Scandal of Similitude: The Song of Songs in Spenser's; title: Wedding Volume; title: The Problem of "as": Blazon and Simile; title: Nostalgia in the Beloved's Absence; title: PART THREE: GRATITUDE, ENVY, SONG; title: 5. rom Aggression to Gratitude: Air and Song in the; title: Parlement of Foules; title: Sallying Forth: The Peripatetic Dreamer; title: Dame Nature and the Maternal Sponsorship of Sound; title: 9 Invisible in Good-Enough Company: The Dreamer in Nature's Household; title: 6. Feasting on Language: Love's Labor's Lost and the Debt; title: to the Maternal; title: Does Kleinian Gratitude Pay the Irigarayan Debt to the Mother?; title: Lyric Catalogues; title: PART FOUR: DEATH IS THE MOTHER; title: 7. Distinctions of Birth: Hunger for Immortality in; title: Lucretius's De Rerum Natura; title: Floribund Ascetic: The Philosophical Speaker; title: From Milky Matters to Ruinous Waste: The Sequence of Mothers; title: Destruction, Creation, and the Fixed Mother; title: 8. Absorption into the Chthonic Mother: Spenser's; title: Faerie Queene, Book 4; title: What a Tangle; title: Mothers to Think Back Through; title: No End to Possibility; title: 9. Enough: The Winter's Tale; title: Bibliographic Essay: Debts of Thinking; title: Index.