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maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare

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An edition of Birth passages (2001)

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English
Pages
266

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Birth passages: maternity and nostalgia, antiquity to Shakespeare
2001, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.933520431
Library of Congress
PN56.5.M67 K75 2001, PN56.5.M67K75 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 266 p. ;
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3937843M
ISBN 10
0801438934
LCCN
2001001968
OCLC/WorldCat
46678169
Goodreads
1203279

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