Emily Bronte 关于《呼啸山庄》作者艾米丽勃朗特

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Emily's Gondal poems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bronte
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IV. Emily Bronte as Novelist
•Only novel: Wuthering Heights
•Fist published in 1847
IV. characters Female characters(Oda,2010):
Isabella and Cathy Linton Gothic heroines More vivid figures A whole version of women together
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•A L o n g Pe r i o d o f P r o s p e r i t y •R a t i o n a l i s m → Ro m a n t i c i s m
Gothic Fiction(Delamotte,1990)
•Pe r i l s o f t h e S o u l •P i c t u r e s q u e a n d E vo c a t ive Ru i n
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The mad dog
•origin—dog ”keeper” (Moore,1963) •The memorize of childhood •The memorize of incidents
Moore,1963,p 133
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Eager death
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III. Emily Bronte as poet
•Few poems of Emily written before 13 can be found today.
•Emily began her Gondal poems • fictional island
•Discovered in 1845(Moore,1936) Published in 1846 as the pseudonym Ellis Bell(Hewish,1969) •Influenced by German Romanticism: Schillre(Allen,2005), Byron, Beethoven(Brown,1939)
V. Images and symbolism
Functions of Fire (Tytler,2013)
•Heathcliff and Catherine as individuals •the problematic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine •characterization of Hindley, Frances, Isabella and Linton Heathcliff •the relationship between Cathy and Hareton
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Hewish,J. (1969). Emily Brontë : A Critical and Biographical Study. London: St. Martin’s aaaaPress. Moore,V. (1936). The Life and Eager Death of Emily Brontë . London: aaaaRich&Cowan,Ltd.. Oda,Y. (2007,November). Wuthering Heights and the Waverley Novels:Sir Walter aaaaScott’s Influence On Emily Bront ë . BrontëStudies,32,217-226. Oda,Y. (2010). Emily Brontëand the Gothic: Female Characters in Wuthering aaaaHeights. Revue LISA,2010,1. Rena-Dozia,E. (2010,Fall). Gothic Criticisms: Wuthering Heights and NineteenthaaaaCentury Literary History. ELH,77,757-775.
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Contents I. The Life II. Wuthering Heights
III. Eager Death
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The Life
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I. Background
Vi c t o r i a n Pe r i o d 1837-1901
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III.
Compare with the gondal poems
Gondal Poems
Wuthering Heigths
THEME
CHARACTER MORAL
Infidelity
Gondal’s Queen Death → Eternity
Infidelity
•Once be thought as a male author(Hewish,1969) the pseudonym Ellis Bell the violence and passion
•Not famous during her life
Title page of the original edition of Wuthering Heights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bronte#cite_note-Pykett-10
Public and critism(Rena-Dozia ,2010) •uncomfortable portion of nineteenth-century literary history •being ignored for nearly a century after its publication Theme and moral: •Moore(1936) said: She was able to express these themes, in one work at least, with a power and originality that give it a place in world literature. Structure and narrative: •The complex organized structure:be criticized → unique strategy •The gothic narrative: acutely criticize and break down the opposition between gothic and domestic style in 19th century( Rena-Dozia,2010)
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Wuthering heights
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I. A Gothic fiction
http://www.nipic.com/show/2/8/4161676k9cc7a69e.html
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II. Importance
Personality:
Emily was really introverted(Gerin,1971). Emily extremely loved solemn moors and storms(Moore,1936). Emily was punished after her mother was dead in her childhood(Moore,1936).
•Adulthood •Younger brother’s virtual suicide
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Though her lips were tight closed, Though they were hidden, If we re-read Cathy’s cry in Wuthering Heigths…
The Poultry Cross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Period
Kenilworth Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
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II. Early Life
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Reference
Allen,M. (2005,March). Emily Brontëand the Influence of the German —— 。aaaaRomantic Poets. Brontëstudies,30,7-10. Brown,H. (1939,July). The Influence of Byron on Emily Brontë . The Modern aaaLanguage Review,vol.34,374-381. Delamotte,E.C. (1990). Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century aaaGothic. New York: Oxford University Press. Gerin,W. (1971). Emily Brontë . London: Oxford University Press.
“I am weary to escape into that glorious world and be always there.” —— Emily Bronte(1847,Wuthweing Heights)
that was the point.
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THANK YOU
EMILY BRONTE
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Different editions of Wuthering Heigths http://image.baidu.com/i?tn=ba iduimage&ct=201326592&lm=1&cl=2&word=wuthering+heigh ts&t=3
Catherine Earnshaw Avenge → Human Nature
CONLUSION: The mind which created Wuthering Heights can be felt everywhere in Emily’s Gondal poems.
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Education & Experience:
Emily’s father gave strong support to children’s school education and shared his interest in arts with them(Green,2011).
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influence on her later life and writing
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•Childhood •Mother died
Enthusiasm of death and ruin
•School year •Death of two elder sisters Decription of different kinds of death in her work