I danced with a zombie Jane

Cynthia Crossen in The Wall Street Journal admits to her literary flirts:

Fictional men I have loved: first and always, Mr. Darcy (Fitzwilliam was his given name, no wonder he preferred "Mr.") from "Pride and Prejudice." Rhett Butler ("Gone With the Wind"), Maxim de Winter ("Rebecca"), Dr. Zhivago. I had a brief fling with Mr. Rochester ("Jane Eyre") but he turned out to have a wife in the attic. I never warmed to Heathcliff ("Wuthering Heights") -- too dark and stormy.

The Online Rocket (the student newspaper of the Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania) informs of a new choreography partially based on Wuthering Heights:

The SRU Dance Theatre will be "Setting the Pace" for the rest of the year's productions this weekend when dancers take the stage at the annual Winter Concert. (...)
Christy Trotnik, a 21-year-old senior majoring in dance and English literature, with an art history minor, is choreographing for the first time.(...)
Trotnik pulled from various sources for inspiration, including the children's book, "The Little Prince," contemporary books, "Hamlet," movie clips, and Wuthering Heights.
"There is a duet in the dance, where all the dancers but two leave the stage. That duet is based on a passage from Wuthering Heights," Trotnik said. (...)
The concert is performed at Miller Auditorium at 8 p.m. Jan. 29, 30 and 31.(Kacie Peterson)

The BBC website asks its readers if a good book can be riddled with faults. We noticed the following answer from Mary, Leeds:

I have always thought that it is too much of a coincidence that Jane Eyre meets her cousins after running away from Mr Rochester and the aborted wedding. However, it is still one of my favourite books and I suppose that miracles do happen sometimes!

The Financial Gazette (Zimbabwe) compares Senator Dianne Feinstein with a Jane Eyre character (!):

Senator Dianne Feinstein, with her 60s bob and brown pant suit, resembling a character from Jane Eyre, spoke with such sweetness and eloquence in her welcoming remarks, that I soon forgave her appearance and clung to her every word. (C. Malakoff)

The Waterford Times uses a Brontë vs Austen example to illustrate a grammar mistake:

Here’s another classical usage mistake often placed in a sentence referring to painters or novelists, and it appears on the test all of the time: “The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (sic) was once more widely read and was more popular in high schools than Charlotte Bronte.”
It’s improper grammar to compare a novel to a novelist. There’s little doubt that when you take the test you’ll see faulty comparison and faulty parallelism questions.

Or the same authors can be used to talk about a 25th wedding anniversary:

Like many other readers of Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice, I was a great believer in happy endings. You go through turmoil, and the path to love is strewn with stones, but after lots of drama, you end up with your destined one. Thus, the story ends. (Mara Sokolsky in Jewish Exponent)

Maddy Costa includes Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in her selection of songs about luck for The Guardian. NZgamer reviews the recently released Nintendo DS's Classic Book Collection:

You’ll get a fantastic selection of Shakespeare’s plays, the complete works of Jane Austin (sic, again), adventure stories like Treasure Island and The Last of the Mohicans. Dickens is in there, two of the Brontes, Eliot, Twain, Henry James… you won’t get bored quickly, because there’s a book for every taste and mood. That is, unless you shun the classics. (Sam Prescott)

The Little Professor presents the following zombie-enhanced Jane Eyre approach (maybe unaware that as a matter of fact there exists I Walked with a Zombie, a 1943 film by Jacques Tourneur which was a reworking of Jane Eyre with Caribbean voodoo):

We all know that if you get in Jane Eyre's way, you die. However, this new take on an old classic reveals the awful truth: Lowood School incubates a virus that transforms young girls into the ravenous undead. Although Jane Eyre thinks that Helen Burns died of consumption, Helen actually spends the novel magically attracted to Jane's vicinity. Expressing her love for Jane in the only way she now can, Helen devours anyone who ever insults, assaults, or otherwise disses her one-time school chum. Notably, the grand climax offers us a very different reason for Mr. Rochester's missing hand.

And thanks also to The Little Professor we have been directed to Cute Overload and this very promising trailer of a quite different approach to Emily Brontë's masterpiece, aptly renamed Wuthering Plains.

Blarney Girl is reading Wuthering Heights, Laura's Book and Movie Reviews posts about Daniel Pool's What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Le Grenier de Doriane (in French), A Level Path and Alcott and Earhart have discovered Jane Eyre, and Romanbloggen (in Swedish) discusses its main character.

Finally, one of the most surrealist Brontë-related things we have found on the net. A dance academy in Brazil named Academia de Dança Jane Eyre.

Categories: Books, Dance, Humour, Jane Eyre, Music, References, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights