Looking in Wonder: Prenatal Sublimity and the Commonplace "Life.".

Subliminal perception; Pregnancy; Fetus; Life; Pregnant women; Mental imagery

This article discusses the importance of a prenatal sublime to the rhetorical commonplace, which is life, within the body of a pregnant women. A rhetorical topography is viewed as a landscape of commonplaces, which includes discursive relations between actions, objects and subjects. These commonplaces are more than collections of tropes and figures typical of a discourse and are enactments of the dynamics that generate discourse. In prenatal imagery, the commonplace life has the features of heterotopias.