M. Hirai

Sisters in Literature

Female Sexuality in Antigone, Middlemarch, Howards End and Women in Love

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Produktbeschreibung

A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters. The author provides an interconnected case-study where each text works on the hidden meanings of the other. Female sexuality, expressed through the language of duality (vulnerability, frustration, submission and destructivity, consummation and rebirth), becomes an ideal vehicle for crossing the barriers between sexes and between societies, as between the texts themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-73145-1
• 1998
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780333731451
• ISBN-10: 033373145X
• Artikelnr.: 44373999

Autorenporträt

Masako Hirai is Professor in the English Department at Kobe University in Nishinomiya, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction The Common Doom Reading Antigone Middlemarch : From Heroic Legend to Emotional History Howards End : From Letters to a Connecting Vision Women in Love (1): The Disruptive Style, Its Images and Arguments Women in Love (2): The Language Between Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'Admirably done, extremely perceptive and very well written. The connections she finds between novels under discussion are genuine, and illuminating, and her book will be of interest to all who value as central to the English novel tradition the works of George Elliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence.' - Sir Frank Kermode