Difference between revisions of "Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)"
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*102 heathcliff no longer coal country but "an arid wilderness" | *102 heathcliff no longer coal country but "an arid wilderness" | ||
*120 lots of books in the Thrushcross Grange library never being opened by Edgar et al - very [[Price 2012]] | *120 lots of books in the Thrushcross Grange library never being opened by Edgar et al - very [[Price 2012]] | ||
| + | *122 Cathy's rambling an avian version of Ophelia's flowers - lists and insanity | ||
| + | *125 Cathy's monologue -- wonderful | ||
==theme tracking== | ==theme tracking== | ||
Revision as of 17:36, 23 March 2017
Contents
general notes
- 22-4 extraordinary passage with Lockwood reading Catherine's narrative in the book, then dreaming, then the ghost
- 34-5 Mrs Dean gives somewhat convoluted genealogy
- 37 heathcliff industrial surplus from Liverpool
- 62 Lockwood and nelly dean talking about storytelling methods
- Benjamin storytelling/novel
- that and 63 metafictive
- 70 metapgorizes heathcliff as looking like "bleak, Holly coal country"
- 81 Catherine's dream that she doesn't belong in heaven
- 82 physical bodies separate and delineate but souls (as C's and H's) can unify between them
- 102 heathcliff no longer coal country but "an arid wilderness"
- 120 lots of books in the Thrushcross Grange library never being opened by Edgar et al - very Price 2012
- 122 Cathy's rambling an avian version of Ophelia's flowers - lists and insanity
- 125 Cathy's monologue -- wonderful
theme tracking
reading:/writing
materiality
physicality
Shakespeare allusions
- 6: Twelfth Night - Lockwood recounting failed courting says he "never told my love"
- 17 Lear - Lockwood when trying to escape WH utrers "several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulence, smacked of king Lear utters"
