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Author Krier, Theresa M., 1953-

Title Birth passages : maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare / Theresa M. Krier
Published Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, 2001

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 W'PONDS  809.93534 K9253/B  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Hazards of Birth -- 1. Cradle and All -- 2. Aggressive Movements in Psychoanalysis: Klein, Winnicott, and Irigaray -- Pt. 2. Generations of Blazons -- 3. The Providence of Similitude in the Song of Songs -- 4. The Scandal of Similitude: The Song of Songs in Spenser's Wedding Volume -- Pt. 3. Gratitude, Envy, Song -- 5. From Aggression of Gratitude: Air and Song in the Parlement of Foules -- 6. Feasting on Language: Love's Labor's Lost and the Debt to the Maternal -- Pt. 4. Death Is the Mother -- 7. Distinctions of Birth: Hunger for Immortality in Lucretius's De Rerum Natura -- 8. Absorption into the Chthonic Mother: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 4 -- 9. Enough: The Winter's Tale -- Bibliographic Essay: Debts of Thinking
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-256) and index
Subject Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Mother and child in literature.
Maternity in literature
LC no. 2001001968
ISBN 0801438934 alkaline paper