Wuthering Heights: A Study

ISBN-13: 9780821410783 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 169 str.

U. C. Knoepflmacher

Opis

"Wuthering Heights" at once fascinates and frustrates the reader with the highly charged, passionate and problematic relationships it portrays. This study provides a key to the text by examining the temporal and narrative rhythms through which Bronte presents the dualities by which we commonly define our selfhood: child and adult, female and male, symbiosis and separateness, illogic and common sense, classlessness and classboundedness, play and power, free will and determinism. The novel s concern with unitary and fragmentary selves has romantic antecedents in DeQuincey and Shelley and in Charlotte Bronte s figuration of Emily as a lost other self. This concern is, in turn, reflected in the after-life of the text in the work of later artists such as George Eliot, Lawrence, Bunuel, and Truffaut."