From Manga to Poetry through Wuthering Heights

AnimeNewsNetwork informs of a manga adaptation of Wuthering Heights. This new version is not directly based on Emily Brontë's novel but in William Wyler's 1939 movie:

The Japanese company Mangabank is adapting the classic Hollywood movies Casablanca (1942), Charade (1963), Stagecoach (1939), and Wuthering Heights (1939) into manga to inaugurate a series of DVD/manga sets on November 17. Each movie has been adapted into a 128-page manga, which will sell with a Japanese-subtitled DVD for 1,380 yen (about US$12.01). Acclaimed manga creator Kenshi Hirokane (Human Crossing, Buchou Shima Kosaku) is supervising the artists drawing the adaptations.

Emily Brontë's novel is also behind some of the poems by Sybil Pittman Estess in Labyrinth as reviewed in San Antonio Express-News:

A second section strikes a fanciful tone in rather outlandish variations on Wuthering Heights. (Robert Bonazzi)

More Wuthering Heights. The Seattle Times reviews one of the usual suspects of recent Brontë news: Valerie Martin's Trespass where one of the characters is

Chloe Dale is a middle-age wife, mother, sometime activist against the Iraq war and artist, working on a series of illustrations for a new publication of "Wuthering Heights". (Valerie Ryan)

The New York Review of Books reviews the Metropolitan performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and compares it to Jane Eyre:

There is, to start with, the mise en scène, which here has been inexplicably updated from the late-seventeenth to the late-nineteenth century. (...) Updatings of operas can be contro-versial, but shouldn't necessarily be so: there is, at the very least, an argument to be made for updating the action of many operas to the time of composition, the moment whose intellectual and cultural climate can explain a great deal about the work itself. This would certainly be the case of Lucia, composed during a period of a decade and a half that showed a particular fas-cination with female madness—the period of the Brontës, of the "madwoman in the attic." (Daniel Mendelsohn)

Certainly this is not the only connection between Lucia di Lammermoor and the Brontës in general: check these posts for futher knowledge.

Briefer news: Normblog interviews blogger Noga (The Contentious Centrist), a Brontëite:

What is the best novel you've ever read? > All of Jane Austen's novels with one stipulation: Jane Eyre remains the best romance I have ever read.

Sleepless in Bookland talks about Wuthering Heights. Never enough homework does the same with Jane Eyre. Literary Lounge has discovered a new favourite: Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. This novel and also Napoleon and the spectre, a juvenilia fragment by Charlotte Brontë, are now available in imp format for mobile readers devices).

Categories: Agnes Grey, Books, Comics, Jane Eyre, Poetry, Wuthering Heights