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Author: Sandra M Gilbert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995-05-02
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780393037715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMotherSongs, a unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, opens with poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery, and nursing and moves to poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth or mourning their loss. Includes works by such artists as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Walt Whitman and others.
Author: Sandra Gilbert
Publisher:
Published: 2007-12
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781422390610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together a range of classic & contemporary poems from the U.S., Great Britain, & Canada by some of our greatest writers. Includes traditional ballads about maternity & courtly elegies for or by mothers as well as 19th-cent. tributes to mothers & 20th-cent. meditations on motherhood. Poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery. Also, poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth, or mourning their loss. Also, poems by sons & daughters who ¿remember mama.¿ Mythic mothers & mother goddesses, moral reflections on maternity, & analyses of the meaning of motherhood are also included. ¿These works bear witness to the powerful ways in which motherhood has been transformed into art, & artistry has been shaped by maternity.¿ Ill.
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1501105892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her remarkable national bestseller, Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst explored how we are shaped by the various losses we experience throughout our lives. Now, in her wise and perceptive new book, Imperfect Control, she shows us how our sense of self and all our important relationships are colored by our struggles over control: over wanting it and taking it, loving it and fearing it, and figuring out when the time has come to surrender it. Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender.
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 2896
ISBN-13: 1438140649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.
Author: William McEvoy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1526176688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief’s subjectivity and uniqueness. It covers classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O’Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.
Author: Susan Et Gubar
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1996-04-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393040399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, MotherSongs brings together for the first time a range of classic and contemporary poems from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. The editors have included traditional ballads about maternity and courtly elegies for or by mothers as well as landmark nineteenth-century tributes to mothers and early twentieth-century meditations on motherhood. MotherSongs opens with poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery, and nursing and moves to poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth, or mourning their loss. The volume then turns to poems by sons and daughters who "remember mama." Mythic mothers and mother goddesses, moral or political reflections on maternity, and philosophical analyses of the meaning of motherhood are also represented. Taken together, the works collected here bear witness to the powerful ways in which motherhood has been transformed into art and artistry has been shaped by maternity.
Author: Freya Jarman-Ivens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1135866619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. From the dominance of the blues singer over his "woman" to the sensitive singer/songwriter, popular music artists have adopted various gendered personae in a search for new forms of expression. Sometimes these roles shift as the singer ages, attitudes change, or new challenges on the pop scene arise; other times, the persona hardens into a shell-like mask that the performer struggles to escape. Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, constructed, represented and addressed across a range of popular music texts and practices. Written by a group of internationally recognized popular music scholars—including Sheila Whiteley, Richard Middleton, and Judith Halberstam—these essays study the concept of masculinity in performance and appearance, and how both male and female artists have engaged with notions of masculinity in popular music.
Author: Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-07-05
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0393348997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Sandra Gilbert's poems are beautifully situated at the intersection of craft and feeling."—Billy Collins The title of this collection—at times mournful, sardonic, and joyous—refers to the grief in the wake of loss. Yet these poems aren't just about the consequences of loss but also about the complex experiences of endurance, acquiescence, and rebirth that, with luck, mark the aftermath of sorrow. from "Aftermath: Kite" But the thought is only paper after all, a soul that clings to a stick, tears open, shreds as if it's flung to the ground in a final shiny fall, and at last the line goes limp, the climbing ends. Beyond the rush & sweep, an arc of silence— though a mind imagined this flight, & proved it once.
Author: Heather Jackson
Publisher: Demeter Press
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1772583650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbortion and Mothering: Research, Stories, and Artistic Expressions is a collection of academic research, personal narratives, and art that comments on different perspectives on abortion and mothering. Scholarly research is balanced with voices and experiences from outside of academia, through the inclusion of personal narratives, poetry, and art. The collection is rooted in the idea that there are not 'women who have abortions' and 'women who have babies,' but that they are the same women at different points in their lives. By considering the intersection of abortion and mothering, and the liminal spaces in between, the reader is challenged to explore some of the culturally and socially constructed complexities that surround the decisions that people make about to their reproductive lives.
Author: Julie Ann Tharp
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780879728083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompelling essays which underline the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in women's writing. Embracing three centuries of prose and poetry, the anthology traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they struggled to transform themselves from objects into maternal subjects. Women as diverse as Anne Bradstreet, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich all labored to reclaim the birthing process by giving voice to experiences and emotions long devalued by a patriarchal culture. Their voices resonate throughout this collection.
