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Friday, June 11, 2010

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A recent fashion collection inspired by Marguerite Duras gives Forbes the chance of recalling Celia Birtwell's covers for Brontë novels:
Back further in fashion history, Zandra Rhodes and Celia Birtwell designed book covers for Wuthering Heights, and Schiaparelli herself professed inspiration from the poetry and art of the Dadaists. (Hannah Elliot)
Heckler Spray discusses the fact that the last film of the Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn will be split into two films:
The long-standing rumours that Breaking Dawn will be split into two films has just been officially confirmed? Because the story is too dense to be confined to one film, even though a) it’s just a piece of cacky nonsense about a sparkly vampire who’s sad because his hair looks like blood-matted animal pubes and b) they managed to fit Crime And Punishment and War And Peace and Doctor Zhivago and Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D’Urbervilles into one film? (Stuart Heritage)
The latest English Paper 2 test is commented upon by The Irish Times:
“I[Brian Nolan] thought it was easy enough in parts . . . the King Lear was all about the betrayal so it was easy enough to do and Wuthering Heights was grand and easy. (Pamela Duncan)
The Wall Street Journal talks about summer (required) reading:
Summer-reading lists themselves (required or recommended) make interesting reading. Most are still heavily weighted toward classics—"Wuthering Heights," "The Grapes of Wrath," "Billy Budd," "Beowulf"—but modern titles have been gradually edging into the canon. (Cynthia Crossen)
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette publishes a belated review of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island:
Martin Scorsese’s latest is an ambitious B-movie, a problematic if masterfully realized film rife with cinematic and literary references, from the Brontë sisters and Val Lewton’s sexually charged RKO horror films (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie) to Patrick McGrath’s “postmodern gothic” studies of madness and Latin American-style magical realism. (Philip Martin)
Book Eater posts about Jane Eyre 2006, Emma's IR Blog is just starting Jane Eyre, Abridged Book Reviews posts exactly what the the name of the blog says about Wuthering Heights, Something's Up... publishes a more extensive review of Emily Brontë's book.

Linda Loves Books devotes a post in English and Swedish to Anne Brontë who, precisely, is the central subject of a brand new blog: The Anne Brontë Blog:
This blog is a place for admirers of her work, to understand further the governess, novelist, poet and sister removed from the shadows.
It has been added to the (ever growing) Other Brontë Blogs sidebar section.

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