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Friday, December 28, 2007

Emily Brontë on a wall

Friday, December 28, 2007 12:41 pm by M. in , , , ,    2 comments
BlogCritics comments the PBS new airing of Jane Eyre 2006 (see TV alerts on the sidebar) not very enthusiastically:
Sunday, December 30:
9:00 – 11:00PM
Masterpiece Theatre – "Jane Eyre". Let's face it, this is a classic novel and there has been more than one classic version of the novel put on screen. This version received numerous awards and nominations, though I'll admit to not being a huge fan of it. (Josh Lasser)
The Chicago Tribune reviews Valerie Martin's Trespass and its Wuthering Heights connections are once more pointed out:
Salome embodies a kind of Brontean otherness for Chloe. She is the "odd, dark creature," like the figure of Bronte's Heathcliff, whom Chloe's son, Toby, has "extracted, it now appears, from some refugee swamp and set down before his mother in a perfectly respectable corner of New York." (Laura Ciolkowski)
On the blogosphere: Kirsten Miller, author of Kiki Strike, is interviewed on Little Willow, she chooses Jane Eyre for her all-time favourite books top ten. Gin and Tonic posts a long synopsis of Jane Eyre. Catherine Czerkawska begins posting on Wordarts her complete new novel The Corncracker, which she defines as
I believe it's a good read. It's a love story and I'm not ashamed of that. I'm also not ashamed to confess that it's a Scottish homage to Wuthering Heights, and I've been told that the writing has a touch of Daphne DuMaurier about it. I only wish!
Finally, Emily Brontë on a wall. Literally. In The Warren Reporter we read how an empty blank wall at the Warren County Community College library has been painted with a mural that, among others, includes Emily Brontë.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/05/2008 04:35:00 am

    I have to confese, I learned about an English writer Charlotte Bronte, and actually all the three Bronte sisters, after I watched an incredible movie "Jane Eyre" 2006. I've watched in my life many movies from all over the world. But this movie made on me unbelivable impact. I've bought 2 DVD's. Watched at least 50 times since last March. Bought a book "Jane Eyre", read it( have to admit the way-language is little odd/old). Bought and read "Wuthering hights". I have watched "Jane Eyre" few years ago with Dalton and the other woman, and forgot all about it. But the adaptation from 2006, with Toby Stephens (the best actor ever,would like to see him in "wuthering HIghts" or "gone with the wind") and Ruth Wilson was in many ways unsual, the acting was superb, unbelivable, definetly the best adaptation of Jane Eyre. the book met its movie version finally. The best Rochester ever. The views, the music, everything was perfect in this movie, direction and the screen play. Thank you England for the best movie and the book.

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  2. Anonymous1/05/2008 10:56:00 am

    You sure sound like you loved the series! And I'm even gladder that thanks to it you discovered and read the Brontë novels. Try and read some more too: Anne's Agnes Grey or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Charlotte's Villette or Shirley.

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