Birth passages : maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare

Birth passages : maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare / Theresa M. Krier.

In Birth Passages, the author suggests an alternative to the common characterisations of the maternal as a force inspiring both desire and dread, a force that must be repressed if subjectivity and culture are to be established.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krier, Theresa M., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Online Access:The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Cradle and all
  • Aggressive movements in psychoanalysis: Klein, Winnicott, and Irigaray
  • The providence of similitude in the Song of Songs
  • The scandal of similitude: the Song of Songs in Spenser's wedding volume
  • From aggression to gratitude: air and song in the Parlement of Foules
  • Feasting on language: Love's Labor Lost and the debt to the maternal
  • Distinctions of birth: hunger for immortality in Lucretius's De Rerum Natura
  • Absorption into the chthonic mother: Spenser's Faerie Queene, book 4
  • Enough: the Winter's Tale.

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