Brontë references (3)

1- "Hiverns suaus"(Mild winters), a poetry book written in Catalan by the recent winner of the Flor Natural Award in the Barcelona Jocs Florals (a literary contest in Catalan language) contains some Brontë references. The writer won the contest with the pseudonym Alexandra March, being in fact a man, Jordi Julià (a reversed Brontë story?). A review here (in Spanish).

The poem: "Gat blanc" (White cat) is preceded by this quote:
"'Tis strange to think there was a time
When mirth was not an empty name" (from Anne Brontë's poem "Past Days")

The poem: "Postals i segells rars" (Postcards and rare stamps) has this preceding quote:
"What is she writing?
Watch her now, How fast her fingers move!
How eagerly her youthful brow
Is bent in thought above!" (from Charlotte Brontë's poem "The letter")

2- Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others
Terry Eagleton
Verso Publishers. (New en paperback. Originally published in 2003)

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës (the also recently republished Myths of Power- A Marxist Study on the Brontës), Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — Terry Eagleton’s achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funny style, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.
In this collection of more than a decade of such bracing criticism, Eagleton comes face to face with Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Edward Said, and even David Beckham. All are subjected to his pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and brilliant literary investigations.

One of these articles is devoted to Branwell Brontë (pages 42 to 48).

Categories: References, Books, Poetry, Anne_Brontë, Charlotte_Brontë, Branwell_Brontë