Shakespeare’s Images of Pregnancy

Sacks, Elizabeth

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“…148e-151e, where Socrates describes philosophy as intellectual "labour" as opposed to the dumb, material labour of childbirth, and himself as midwife who attends "men not women" and who looks after "their souls when they are in labour, and not after their bodies. " Sacks 1980, 1. Parker 2012; see also Baraitser 2009, 19.…”

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Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Sharrock¹,

Keith²

2020

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Introduction 3 alison keith, mairéad mcauley, and alison sharrock 2 Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature 26 mairéad mcauley Section 1: Mothers and Young Children 47 3 From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World 49 florence gherchanoc 4 Νωδυνία: L'Oubli des Souffrances Maternelles et le Chant Théocritéen: d'Alcmène (Id. 24) à Bérénice (Id. 17) 63 florence klein 5 "Nimis … mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid 80 federica bessone 6 Augustan Maternal Ideology: The Blended Families of Octavia and Venus 113 judith p. hallett Section 2: Mothers and Their Children's Marriages 127 7 Motherhood in Roman Epithalamia 129 henriette harich-schwarzbauer vi Contents 8 The Roman Mother-In-Law 140 alison sharrock Section 3: Mothers and Their Adult Children 167 9 Maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus / maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la Mère et Inceste chez Sénèque 169 jacqueline fabre-serris 10 Mighty Mothers: Female Political Theorists in Euripides' Suppliant Women and Phoenician Women 193 giulia sissa 11 Wife, Mother, Philosopher: On the Symbolic Function of Augustine's Monnica 224 therese fuhrer Section 4: Mothers and the Death of Their Children 241 12 Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid 243 alison keith 13 Octavia: A Roman Mother in Mourning 270 valerie hope 14 Mothers as Dedicators 296 olympia bobou Abbreviations 321 Works Cited 323 Contributors 361 Index Locorum 363 General Index 373 MATERNAL CONCEPTIONS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank 10 Contents 10 Alison Keith, Mairéad McAuley, and Alison Sharrockout our anxiety, giving that zone of anguish a name: femininity, nonlanguage, body. But the name we give it before all others, the one we really hold answerable for it, is the mother." 20 The "mother" here stands for both the notion of a coherent self and testimony to its inherent instability, as demonstrated by the inevitable inadequacy or "falling short" of language as communication and signification.Kristeva is redescribing here, in psychoanalytic terms, a philosophical problem with the mother that has troubled modern feminist theory since its origins in the early twentieth century. What does motherhood mean -or rather, what is motherhood's relationship to meaning, particularly as it is defined by "patriarchal discourses" of the self, such as philosophy and literature? At the beginning of The Second Sex, her foundational work of feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir sketched out the metaphorical meanings of the mother figure in Western culture:The Woman-Mother has a face of shadows: she is the chaos whence all have come and whither all must one day return; she is Nothingness. In the Night are confused together the multiple aspects of the world which daylight reveals: night of spirit confined in the generality and opacity of matter, night of sleep and of nothingness. In the deeps of the sea it is night: woman is the Mare tenebrarum, dreaded by navigators of old; it is night in the entrails of the earth....

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2020

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“…In addition to Sidney, many other poets compare writing to birthing. For an overview of this poetic tradition see Maus, 2005 andSacks, 1980. For a discussion of how Donne fits into this tradition see H.L.…”

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Birthing and Mining in John Donne’s “To His Mistress Going to Bed”

Frayne¹

2017

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This paper uncovers an aspect of "To His Mistress Going to Bed" that has largely been ignored by critics of the poem, namely, the poem's interest in the interrelationship between power, geological exploration, and childbirth. Over the past twenty years, social historians and historians of medicine have explored early modern accounts of childbirth, making it possible for scholars to recover the historical context framing Donne's depictions of childbirth. Placing "To His Mistress" within this historical context forces us to rethink a number of critical assumptions about the poem: in particular that the poem concerns sex but not procreation. In this paper, I explore the implications that medical beliefs about reproduction and the medical politics of childbirth had for Donne as he set about trying to dramatize male desire and uncover the hidden interior of the female body. My historical analysis reveals how the poem fits within the early modern conversation about women's reproductive power and artificial birth. By illuminating interwoven references to childbirth with references to mining, I situate Donne's poem within the larger early modern conversation about women's reproductive power and artificial birth. This repositioning has important implications for Donne's sexual politics and the medical context informing his work.

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Bearing Death inThe Winter's Tale

Burnette¹

2016

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s Images of Pregnancy

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Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Birthing and Mining in John Donne’s “To His Mistress Going to Bed”

Bearing Death inThe Winter's Tale

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