| 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.
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Mothers in literature.
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Mother and child in literature.
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Maternity in literature
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| LC no. |
2001001968 |
| ISBN |
0801438934 alkaline paper |
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