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*136ff Isabella's long letter -- "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
 
*136ff Isabella's long letter -- "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
 
*158 beginning vol 2 - brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term)
 
*158 beginning vol 2 - brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term)
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**also just enough to catch a reader up -- "I had heard all of my neighbor's history"
  
 
==theme tracking==
 
==theme tracking==

Revision as of 14:04, 24 March 2017

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
  • lots of interesting stuff in ch xii of vol 1
  • 136ff Isabella's long letter -- "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
  • 158 beginning vol 2 - brief metafictive framing of Nelly as narrator/storyteller (interesting that Lockwood chooses the former term)
    • also just enough to catch a reader up -- "I had heard all of my neighbor's history"

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"
  • beginning of ch 4 "what vain westhercocks we are" - Love's Labours Lost "what Caine? What weathercock" is.1.94