Landmark’s of World Literature Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

Landmark’s of World Literature
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

U.C. Knoepflmacher

Cambridge University Press 1989. Mjuk pärm 131 sidor. Läst, mycket gott skick.
ISBN 9780521312442

LANDMARKS OF WORLD LITERATURE
GENERAL EDITOR: J.P. STERN

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides a close reading of that text, as well as a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discusion of its influence, and a guide to further reading. The contributors to the series give full consideration to the linguistic issues raised by each text, and, within the overall framework of the series, are given complete freedom in the choice of their critical method. Where the text is written in a language other than English, full account is taken of readers studying the text in English translation. While critical jargon is avoided, important technical terminology is fully explained and thus this series will be genuinely accessible to students at all levels and to general readers.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Wuthering Heights is a novel which 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 dismantling the book's metaphoric and narrative structures to show the underlying oppositions on which it is built: power/play, adult/child, sexual differentiation/gender fusion, social deprivation/erotic domination.

Professor Knoepflmacher also discusses the reception of the book, from Charlotte Brontë's 1850 reading (three years after Wuthering Heights first appeared) to mid-Victorian and twentieth-century adoptions of the myth in poetry, painting and film.
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