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LEADER: 02448cam 2200241 a 4500
001 2001001968
003 DLC
005 20050211211054.0
008 010403s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001001968
020 $a0801438934 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPN56.5.M67$bK75 2001
082 00 $a809/.933520431$221
100 1 $aKrier, Theresa M.,$d1953-
245 10 $aBirth passages :$bmaternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare /$cTheresa M. Krier.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2001.
300 $axvii, 266 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: PART ONE: HAZARDS OF BIRTH -- 1. Cradle and All -- Mythopoeic Mothers and Tropes of Generation -- Weathering Birth -- 2. Aggressive Movements in Psychoanalysis: Klein, -- Winnicott, and Irigaray -- Conserving Winnicott -- Theoretical Responses to Catastrophe -- Range of Motion -- PART Two: GENERATIONS OF BLAZONS -- 3. The Providence of Similitude in the Song of Songs -- Mothering and the Song's Creatural Object World -- Metonymy and Winnicottian Aggression -- 4. The Scandal of Similitude: The Song of Songs in Spenser's -- Wedding Volume -- The Problem of "as": Blazon and Simile -- Nostalgia in the Beloved's Absence -- PART THREE: GRATITUDE, ENVY, SONG -- 5. rom Aggression to Gratitude: Air and Song in the -- Parlement of Foules -- Sallying Forth: The Peripatetic Dreamer -- Dame Nature and the Maternal Sponsorship of Sound -- 9 Invisible in Good-Enough Company: The Dreamer in Nature's Household -- 6. Feasting on Language: Love's Labor's Lost and the Debt -- to the Maternal -- Does Kleinian Gratitude Pay the Irigarayan Debt to the Mother? -- Lyric Catalogues -- PART FOUR: DEATH IS THE MOTHER -- 7. Distinctions of Birth: Hunger for Immortality in -- Lucretius's De Rerum Natura -- Floribund Ascetic: The Philosophical Speaker -- From Milky Matters to Ruinous Waste: The Sequence of Mothers -- Destruction, Creation, and the Fixed Mother -- 8. Absorption into the Chthonic Mother: Spenser's -- Faerie Queene, Book 4 -- What a Tangle -- Mothers to Think Back Through -- No End to Possibility -- 9. Enough: The Winter's Tale -- Bibliographic Essay: Debts of Thinking -- Index.
650 0 $aMothers in literature.
650 0 $aMotherhood in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001001968.html