Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Krier, Theresa M.
Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare
- Published
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 266 pp.
- Description
- Treats Chaucer's topoi of bird song, maternal goddess Nature, voice, mother tongue, and biblical gardens in PF. Argues that the movement from aggressive plot to lyric in the poem and its male protagonist's oblique approach to the maternal draw the reader into an ethical stance of welcoming natality, the mother's otherness, and the pleasures of maternal sound. Compares Chaucer's treatment to works by Spenser and Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.