Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the TempestAn original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall. |
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... final years ; his friendship is one of its most unex- pected benefits . And above all , there are four dear friends - Elizabeth Abel , Stanley Cavell , Madelon Sprengnether , and Richard Wheeler- who have been gracious presences in my ...
... final years ; his friendship is one of its most unex- pected benefits . And above all , there are four dear friends - Elizabeth Abel , Stanley Cavell , Madelon Sprengnether , and Richard Wheeler- who have been gracious presences in my ...
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... final vision of nemesis in the form of Margaret , whose hunger for revenge is cloyed as one by one the moth- ers ' sons " drop into the rotten mouth of death " ( Richard III , 4.4.61– 62 , 4.4.2 ) . These anxieties are sometimes ...
... final vision of nemesis in the form of Margaret , whose hunger for revenge is cloyed as one by one the moth- ers ' sons " drop into the rotten mouth of death " ( Richard III , 4.4.61– 62 , 4.4.2 ) . These anxieties are sometimes ...
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... final soliloquy ( 5.3.178- 204 ) , the effect is less of a psyche than of diverse roles confronting themselves across the void where a self should be . And Shakespeare similarly participates in Richard's violent unmaking of the maternal ...
... final soliloquy ( 5.3.178- 204 ) , the effect is less of a psyche than of diverse roles confronting themselves across the void where a self should be . And Shakespeare similarly participates in Richard's violent unmaking of the maternal ...
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... boundary contamination everywhere infect this play , from its initial worry about invasion to its final heap of poisoned bodies : in a psychic world where boundaries cannot hold , where the self 28 / MAN AND WIFE IS ONE FLESH.
... boundary contamination everywhere infect this play , from its initial worry about invasion to its final heap of poisoned bodies : in a psychic world where boundaries cannot hold , where the self 28 / MAN AND WIFE IS ONE FLESH.
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Contents
11 | |
Union and Its Discontents | 38 |
On Marriage | 76 |
Suffocating Mothers in King Lear | 103 |
The Construction | 130 |
Imagining Male | 165 |
Notes | 239 |
Author Index | 364 |
Subject Index | 377 |
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