Leaving the MotherFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 - 140 páginas This book traces the pivotal role of the mother throughout each edition of Leaves of Grass. To limit mother to biological mother or even to female, however, is too restrictive. Providing means of analysis, psychoanalytic theorist Julia Kristeva broadens the definition of mother, with her theory of subject formation. The mother is no longer a biological mother but instead a psychoanalytic m/other, the primal or pre-oedipal m/ other, who looms large in the child's earliest phase of development. Kristeva's theory emphasizes patriarchy's suppression of the m/other in subject formation, a process suggested within the evolution of Leaves of Grass. |
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abject appears associated becomes border boundaries breasts Calamus child corpse Cradle Endlessly Rocking Dark Mother dead death describes desire disrupting distant ironical laughter Ebb'd editions of Leaves embraces emerging subject emphasizes erotic Evolution of Walt feels feminine Field One Night Fields Father Gay Wilson Allen God the Father homoerotic horror jouissance Julia Kristeva Kristeva's theory land language Leaves of Grass Lechte Lilacs longer lover M/other M/other-child dyad Madonna male marginalized Mater Dolorosa maternal figure maternal images maternal presence metaphor mirror stage mother nature mother ocean Nathanson Passage to India patriarchy's poems first published poet poet's poetic Prayer of Columbus pre-Oedipal pre-subject reading rejection repress Roger Asselineau Semiotic separating sexual shore Sleepers soldier Song soothing speaker speaking subject subject formation suggests Symbolic taboo thee tion Toril Moi touch traditional union University Press vanishes Vigil Strange Walt Whitman waves Whitman's canon Whitman's poetry woman womb word Wound-Dresser writes York
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Página 96 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Página 97 - Passing the visions, passing the night, Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades' hands, Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night, Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy...
Página 37 - ... laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
Página 40 - Mine is no callous shell, I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
Página 13 - You sea! I resign myself to you also - I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
Página 36 - Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
Página 96 - When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, ; Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
Página 64 - The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable, The mother with mild words .... clean her cap and gown .... a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by: The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust. The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure...