Between the Lines

The Fall number of Writing Women. A Newsletter for the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association contains a couple of informations of interest for the Brontë aficionados:

Call for Chicago-Area Brontë Scholar
Looking for a Chicago-area Brontë scholar who can participate in various activities (December 2007–February 2008) related to the presentation of “Written on the Body,” a modern dance work which uses the story of the literary Brontë sisters as a point of departure in its exploration of gender roles and stereotypes. Using images of power, strength, vulnerability and intimacy, and exploring how each attribute can be related through movement; TDC Artistic Director Margi Cole interprets the Brontës’ masculine and feminine personas. This work will be presented at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago in February 2008. If interested, please contact Margi Cole, Artistic Director, The Dance COLEctive, 300 N. State, Suite DD, Chicago, IL 60610; (773) 604-8452.

More information about Written on the Body on this old post of ours.

Art Exhibit Explores the Creativity of Women Writers
Between the Lines (accessible on-line here) combines visual and textual works to explore the creativity of women authors. The exhibit is about the impossibility of objectivity, the idea that without influence, without subjectivity, there can be no creativity. (...)
The work, while intended as a tribute to specific female writers (Iris Murdoch, Jean Rhys, George Eliot, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Bronte, Ethel Wilson, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Munro, and Toni Morrison) also explores the liminal space between the creator and the created, the superseding but by no means authoritative perspective of the observer, and the overarching influences of society and time, both past and present. (Arin Fay)

Jane Eyre

Wide Sargasso Sea

Clicking on the images you can enlarge the pictures and read Arin Fay's interesting views on these two novels.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Dance, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea