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*185 Catherine to L / Cathy to H, young Cathy to L / Catherine else: chiastic naming, intimacy | *185 Catherine to L / Cathy to H, young Cathy to L / Catherine else: chiastic naming, intimacy | ||
*224 letters between Catherine and linton almost a form of perversion | *224 letters between Catherine and linton almost a form of perversion | ||
| + | **226: "A fine bundle of trash you study in your leisure hours to be sure - Why, it's good enough to be printed! | ||
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Revision as of 17:05, 24 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
- lots of interesting stuff in ch xii of vol 1
- 126 their souls are one
- 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"
- 161 he's my soul
- 167 the former inhabitantS of cathy's body
- 185 Catherine to L / Cathy to H, young Cathy to L / Catherine else: chiastic naming, intimacy
- 224 letters between Catherine and linton almost a form of perversion
- 226: "A fine bundle of trash you study in your leisure hours to be sure - Why, it's good enough to be printed!
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
