Emily Brontë discussed in Trieste

We received this information by faithful reader Adriana Marcorini some weeks ago but regrettably it got buried in our upcoming posts file. With sincere apologies to Adriana, we publish it now:

During March and April, at the Univeristà della Terza Età in Trieste, Italy, Emily Brontë was, for the first time, the subject of a course where her life and works were analysed.
Since its beginning in 1982, the main purpose of the association “Università della Terza Età” in Trieste (you can find the same kind of association in most of the Italian towns) has been to promote and enlighten the cultural interests of elderly people. In order to achieve this aim I decided, with my interest and personal studies on the Brontës, to present a course on my favourite author, Emily Brontë. The Board of the association was at once very interested in giving the “pupils” the opportunity to know more about the “sphinx of English literature”, and so it happened that for four lessons I had the pleasure of analysing the figure of Emily. Beginning with a survey of the period when she lived (namely the first Victorian period) with particular attention on the cultural and artistic milieu and the position of women in the Victorian society, I tried to draw her figure in the purest way, trying to divide the actual facts from the legend Emily Brontë is surrounded with. The last meeting was devoted to Wuthering Heights, which among the participants, unfortunalely, was known more as a popular love romance (many of them remembered only the film version by William Wyler of 1939), than a classic of English Literature!
The course was appreciated and I was asked to repeat the experience next year so that Emily Brontë is going to be one of the main topics among the Foreign Literature activites in 2010-11.

Categories: Emily Brontë, Talks