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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Wuthering Heights"”.
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
<p>Central to Emily Brontë’s <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (1847) is its famous haunting scene. As this paper suggests, it is in the haunting scene that the novel’s themes are at their most potent and where Brontë is at her most daring, challenging the socially prescribed, gendered binaries of her …
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"Harmonized by the earth": Land, Landscape, and Place in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
… of location on the characters of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, concentrating on three key concepts: exile and the idea of "location," confinement in a limited community, and embodiment of the landscape.
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The Shared Vision of Anne and Emily Bronte: The Context for 'Wuthering Heights'
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"Projections of the Not-Me": Redemptive Possibilities of the Gothic within Wuthering Heights and Beloved
… considering the ways that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Toni Morrison’s Beloved share a similar concern for the monster within. I first locate these texts within their Gothic traditions, revealing a preoccupation with the body, and the known world, that unites these texts. I then …
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The Loss Of Identity In Emily Bronte‘S Wuthering Heights and K. S. Maniam‘S The Return in relation to communication issues: A critical analysis
… analysed two postcolonial novels (Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights and K.S Maniam‘s The Return) tracing the themes of loss of identity and the effect of communication in the role of the behaviour of the characters. The two novels were analysed in a systematic approach based on the principles of …
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The Brontë inheritance : some Brontë progeny
… to Branwell, Charlotte and Emily Bronte and to Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. These texts and the more fluid "Bronte legend" are examined as hypotext for Heathcliff (Jeffrey Caine), Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights (Lin Haire-Sargeant) and Return to Wuthering Heights (Anna …
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
… comprises an in-depth study of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette, and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wild fell Hall, examining each sister's individual use of nature, and its related symbols and images. This thesis will show how the natural …
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A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë
… the eccentric but transcendent world of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Gondal poems. Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early twentieth …
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Amongst Books
In Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights the function of books is manifold. Both authors use the recurring motif of books and reading as a tool of characterisation, for the advancement of the plot, or for cohesive device in the narrative structure. In my thesis I will pay special attention to the role of …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Mémoire et identité dans les réécritures caribéennes : Wide Sargasso Sea et La Migration des Coeurs
… La Migration des Coeurs (1995), a rewriting of Wuthering Heights. I argue that both novels create a new creole identity by conversing with their original texts as well as by going beyond the official definition of creoleness. Using the concepts of obsessive memory and forced forgetfulness, I …
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Cannibalizing the Victorians: Racial and Cultural Hybridity in the Brontes and Their Caribbean Rewritings
… however, that my project discusses Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as paradigms of a colonialist perspective awaiting overhaul by timely postcolonial revisions. Rather, I offer historically grounded textual analyses of individual Bronte novels in order to challenge the dominant critical contention …
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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
… these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… respective texts, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights. However, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, and Emily Brontë, the three women writers who craft these characters, both confirm and challenge race stereotypes. The first four chapters of this thesis will explore the construct of race …
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The other end of history : three women writers and the romance
… I trace these mediations through three texts. Wuthering Heights, I argue, enacts a bold disruption of the organisation of the unregulated libidinal energy of its protagonists Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The restoration of domestic harmony at the text's closure is an uneasy one. The Thorn …
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… landscape of nineteenth-century Yorkshire in Wuthering Heights (2011). This is a study of walking as depicted in Arnold’s cinematic output, along with the three short films with which she began her career, all of which focus upon strong female characters living in areas of economic and social …
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Monstrous Marriage: Re-Evaluating Consent, Coverture, and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Gothic Fiction
… on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I examine these works in light of consent and the law of coverture, as well as social expectations that create false narratives about ideal marriages. …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… H: The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights (1992), D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre (2000) and Emma Tennant’s Adele: Jane Eyre’s Hidden Story (2002). I argue that a narrative reorientation away from Bertha in the three later novels, which cannibalise …