Reviews

Edward Mendelson, Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography (Princeton UP 2017), reviewed by Janet Montefiore; Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë, The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë, edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann (Juvenilia Press, 2019), reviewed by Deborah Denenholz Morse; Lucasta Miller. L. E. L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the “Female Byron" (Anchor Books of Penguin Random House, 2019), reviewed by Beverly Taylor.

Gothic Reality: A Study of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, is a gothic novel with an innovative stance. Gothic elements permeate the story, but it is not a gothic novel in the traditional sense of the word. The fantastic tales so popular in the eighteenth century alienated the reader by creating phantasmagorical worlds. Emily Bronte, however, grounded her gothic world firmly in reality. Through an analytical approach, the author aims to show, in this article, how Emily Bronte reversed gothic conventions to create a gothic reality whose message is still relevant today. The author will show that her use of the gothic mode was an attempt to capture the real essence of life, anticipating the metaphysical theories of D. H. Lawrence, who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century. By highlighting her innate understanding of human nature , this article will focus on her affinity with Lawrence and the celebration of man’s powerful primal instincts. This article hinges on the premise that she deplored the mechanical restrictions of the society in which she lived. The author aims to show that her Gothicism is, paradoxically, synonymous with a search for life.

Gothic Reality: A Study of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, is a gothic novel with an innovative stance. Gothic elements permeate the story, but it is not a gothic novel in the traditional sense of the word. The fantastic tales so popular in the eighteenth century alienated the reader by creating phantasmagorical worlds. Emily Bronte, however, grounded her gothic world firmly in reality. Through an analytical approach, the author aims to show, in this article, how Emily Bronte reversed gothic conventions to create a gothic reality whose message is still relevant today. The author will show that her use of the gothic mode was an attempt to capture the real essence of life, anticipating the metaphysical theories of D. H. Lawrence, who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century. By highlighting her innate understanding of human nature , this article will focus on her affinity with Lawrence and the celebration of man’s powerful primal instincts. This article hinges on the premise that she deplored the mechanical restrictions of the society in which she lived. The author aims to show that her Gothicism is, paradoxically, synonymous with a search for life.

Thematic implications and representativeness in Wuthering Heights (1848): Dialect as a social reality

Since language is a brainwork of speakers who live in social and physical environments, researchers are obliged to think about the alliance between the vocabularies’ meaning in dictionaries and their significance in social use. And because the novel is a fictional piece of writing which is primarily inspired by real life and reflects realities. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte strives to interfere in her characters’ thought and considers their social class, culture and experience; she acts as a writer, the speaker and the reader as well. These authorial qualities gave birth to a text combined of two language varieties, the Standard English and the Yorkshire dialect which are tightly interwoven without distorting the unity and the arrangement of the story plot. This paper looks to cover the different social inclinations of E. Bronte’s depiction of dialect in addition to some critical resonances of such representation. Keywords: Wuthering Heights, dialect representativeness, social reality, thematic implications, language.

Ecological Apocalypse in the Poetry of Patrick and Emily Brontë

This essay considers relationships between nature, ecology and apocalypse in the poetry of Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) and Emily Brontë (1818–1848). It argues that though Patrick’s poetry emphasises the spiritual benefits of human connection with the natural world, his apocalypticism leads him to see no eschatological future for the natural world. Emily’s poetry is more attentive to destruction and violence in the natural world, but it also offers an eschatological vision of a future in which all of creation participates. Reading Emily’s poetry in theological conversation with that of her father, this essay argues that Emily reinterprets Patrick’s evangelical apocalypticism in the light of her understanding of God as the eternal source of all finite being. Drawing on a theological view of creation as God’s eternal relationship with the earth, Emily suggests that meaningful eschatological hope can be located only in a future in which the whole of creation participates with the human.

Dotykanie minionego. Fortepian Jane Campion jako przykład adaptacji auratycznej

Artykuł jest próbą zdefiniowania zjawiska w światowym kinie współczesnym, które wykorzystując nowe sposoby komunikacji w obrębie sztuk wizualnych i ich haptyczności, stara się rekreować nastroje i wrażliwości konotowane z kulturą minionych czasów. Fortepian Jane Campion, jako świadectwo zaangażowanej lektury przede wszystkim poezji Emily Dickinson, ale też Wichrowych Wzgórz Emily Brontë, staje się tu przykładem fabuły z jednej strony nasyconej perspektywami, motywami i sytuacjami zaczerpniętymi z tych utworów, z drugiej wykorzystuje stylistyczną multisensoryczność kina, by w przedstawionych bohaterach i przedmiotach ich otaczających odtwarzać dynamikę relacji i nastroje znane z przekazów o kulturze połowy XIX wieku. Dzięki temu staje się auraptacją (adaptacją auratyczną; ang. auraptation – auratic adaptation), adaptacją aury wyczytanej spomiędzy literackich świadectw epoki, przeniesieniem w dzisiejsze czasy i właściwe im media niepowstałej w wieku XIX opowieści.

A INTERAÇÃO ROMÂNTICA COM A NATUREZA: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, DA ESCRITORA EMILY BRONTË, E STREAMER IN A SNOWSTORM E THE SHIPWRECK, DO PINTOR WILLIAM TURNER

O presente artigo é um estudo interartes que tem por objetivo comparar duas produções inglesas de características românticas: o romance Wuthering Heights (O Morro Dos Ventos Uivantes, 1847), da escritora Emily Brontë (1818-1848), e as pinturas Streamer In A Snowstorm (Vapor Numa Tempestade De Neve, 1842) e The Shipwreck (O Naufrágio, 1805), de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Tomando como parâmetro metodológico uma pesquisa de origem comparativa, envolvendo a leitura de imagem e de texto literário, far-se-ão as análises das mencionadas pinturas criadas por William Turner e da prosa ficcional de Emily Brontë, deslindando a interação entre as suas respectivas criações com o tema da natureza, e pontuando, por conseguinte, o diálogo entre as obras enquanto representações importantes dentro do Romantismo inglês. Para a fundamentação teórico-crítica utilizamos estudos da área de literatura, artes visuais e filosofia, de autora e autores como: Márcia Cavendish Wanderley, Benedito Nunes, Anatol Rosenfeld, J. Guinsburg, Georges Bataille, E. H. Gombrich, Herbert Read, Friedrich Schelling e Michel Ribon.