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- catalog abstract "Three classic English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, E. M. Forster's Howards End and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, share a theme: they study the fortunes in love of two sisters, and all three books are descendants of Sophocles' Antigone, of which Forster said, '... of all the great tragic utterances that comes closest to my heart'. There is no doubt that Lawrence read Forster; that he and Forster read George Eliot; and that all three read Antigone. So its basic theme, of the two sisters - two women with contrasting temperaments, who face a life-crisis, argue passionately about it, act differently but remain loyal to each other, and are deeply changed by what happens - this is common to all the books. This has not been observed elsewhere, or treated at length, and it is an interesting and significant argument, especially for today's readers. Masako Hirai shows her theme being taken at a deep level and profoundly appropriated by the authors. She draws on biographical material to show why it mattered to each of them personally, without falling into psychological crudities.".
- catalog contributor b10786597.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The Common Doom. The Split in the Novelists. Mothering the Artist -- 3. Reading Antigone. Antigone for George Eliot. Antigone and Eliot for D. H. Lawrence. Antigone and Eliot for E. M. Forster. Reading Antigone from the Sisters' Dialectic -- 4. Middlemarch: From Heroic Legend to Emotional History. Beginning with Legend: History as Narrowing Path. Juxtaposition: Images and Counter-Images. Dialogue: Passion vs. Common Sense. Disillusionment and Sexual Images. Ending with a Diminished Myth: an Emotive History -- 5. Howards End: From Letters to a Connecting Vision. Beginning with Letters: History as a Disconnected View. The Dilemma: Freedom and Discontinuity in Social and Sexual Myths. Dialogue: Poetry and Prose.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-219) and index.".
- catalog description "There is no doubt that Lawrence read Forster; that he and Forster read George Eliot; and that all three read Antigone. So its basic theme, of the two sisters - two women with contrasting temperaments, who face a life-crisis, argue passionately about it, act differently but remain loyal to each other, and are deeply changed by what happens - this is common to all the books. This has not been observed elsewhere, or treated at length, and it is an interesting and significant argument, especially for today's readers. Masako Hirai shows her theme being taken at a deep level and profoundly appropriated by the authors. She draws on biographical material to show why it mattered to each of them personally, without falling into psychological crudities.".
- catalog description "Three classic English novels, George Eliot's Middlemarch, E. M. Forster's Howards End and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, share a theme: they study the fortunes in love of two sisters, and all three books are descendants of Sophocles' Antigone, of which Forster said, '... of all the great tragic utterances that comes closest to my heart'.".
- catalog extent "xii, 221 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312214219 (St. Martin's)".
- catalog identifier "033373145X (Macmillan)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "823.009/352045 21".
- catalog subject "Antigone (Mythological character) In literature.".
- catalog subject "Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.".
- catalog subject "English fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. Howards End.".
- catalog subject "Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930. Women in love.".
- catalog subject "Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1936. Women in love.".
- catalog subject "PR888.S52 H57 1998".
- catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sisters in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sophocles. Antigone.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The Common Doom. The Split in the Novelists. Mothering the Artist -- 3. Reading Antigone. Antigone for George Eliot. Antigone and Eliot for D. H. Lawrence. Antigone and Eliot for E. M. Forster. Reading Antigone from the Sisters' Dialectic -- 4. Middlemarch: From Heroic Legend to Emotional History. Beginning with Legend: History as Narrowing Path. Juxtaposition: Images and Counter-Images. Dialogue: Passion vs. Common Sense. Disillusionment and Sexual Images. Ending with a Diminished Myth: an Emotive History -- 5. Howards End: From Letters to a Connecting Vision. Beginning with Letters: History as a Disconnected View. The Dilemma: Freedom and Discontinuity in Social and Sexual Myths. Dialogue: Poetry and Prose.".
- catalog title "Sisters in literature : female sexuality in Antigone, Middlemarch, Howards End, and Women in love / Masako Hirai.".
- catalog type "text".