From the publisher. Psychological theory has traditionally overlooked or minimized the role of siblings in development, focusing instead on parent-child attachment relationships. The importance of sisters has been even more marginalized. Sue A. Kuba explores this omission in The…
A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500
A wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500.
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 …
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
