Shelley's goddess : maternity, language, subjectivity
by
 
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth.

Title
Shelley's goddess : maternity, language, subjectivity

Author
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth.

ISBN
9780195073836
 
9780195073843

Personal Author
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth.

Publication Information
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Physical Description
xviii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents
Pt. I. The Nurse's Soul. 1. Infancy Narratives. The Lacanian-Kristevan Narrative. The Interpersonal Narrative. 2. Her Destined Sphere. Maternity Eroticized. The Mother-Educator. The Mother God(dess). 3. Queen of the Field Place Hive. Strategies of Infant Desire. A Mother-Son Alliance. Comus at Field Place -- Pt. II. Re-Membering the Mother. 4. Seeing Through Mirrors (Prometheus Unbound, Act I). 5. The Source of Desire Seeks the End of Desire (Prometheus Unbound, Act II). The Gaze of Soul-Making (Scene i). The Caverns of Thought (Scenes i and ii). Ritual Descent (Scenes iii and iv). Prometheus/Adonis and the Mother Goddess (Scene v). 6. "Where the Split Began" (Prometheus Unbound, Act III). The Rape of Thetis (Scene i). Utopian Paradigms (Scene ii). Mother and Son (Scene iii). The Dipsas of Desire (Scene iv).

Personal Subject
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term
Mother and child in literature.
 
Psychoanalysis and literature.
 
Subjectivity in literature.
 
Motherhood in literature.
 
Infants in literature.
 
Poetry -- Psychological aspects.


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