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

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.

xvii, 266 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Includes index and bibliography: p. [249]-256.