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Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone, Middlemarch, Howards End, and Women in Love
Masako Hirai
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Description for Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone, Middlemarch, Howards End, and Women in Love
Hardcover. This is a 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. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333731451
SKU
V9780333731451
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99-15
About Masako Hirai
Masako Hirai is Professor in the English Department at Kobe University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
Reviews for Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone, Middlemarch, Howards End, and Women in Love
'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