Sounds Glorious

John Sutherland selects for The Guardian a top ten of books about (or against) literary criticism. Among them:

Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1978)
Showalter was the critic who realised that after the breakthroughs of the women's movement in the 1960s a new map of literature was required. More particularly some mapping out of the zone in which women talk to women. Why does Jane Eyre mean more to a woman reader than a man? Or does it? Essentially, Showalter takes Virginia Woolf's "room of one's own" thesis and applies it to fiction. In her career she went on to help frame a whole new syllabus area.

Singapore Today visits Dublin and talks about the Gate Theatre production of Jane Eyre:

I wanted to check out the Dublin arts scene, so I bought myself a ticket to watch Jane Eyre at the Gate Theatre. (Okay, it was written by Charlotte Brontë, who isn't Irish, but the theatre is!) And who should be playing Jane but Andrea Corr (yes, she of The Corrs fame). This was a particularly light adaptation by Alan Stanford and quite enjoyable; Andrea made a rather uncharacteristically merry Jane, or maybe it was because all I could hear - despite the gravity of the words she was uttering - was just that familiar, high-pitched lilt trilling, "We are so young now, we are so young, so young now ..."  (May Seah)

IFC lists ten movies that cannot be missed in 2011:

"Wuthering Heights"
Directed by Andrea Arnold
Rising Brit auteur Arnold ("Fish Tank," "Red Road") takes her beautifully gritty aesthetic to the classics, with this reportedly "rawer" take on Emily Brontë's 1847 tale of doomed teenage lovers. The faithful adaptation recently made headlines in the U.K. when it was announced that James Howson, a young black actor with no prior film credits, was cast as Heathcliff. Eighteen-year-old actress Kaya Scodelario (known from Brit TV series "Skins") stars as the ill-fated Catherine Earnshaw. According to The Guardian, key scenes were filmed at Moor Close, "a desolate farmhouse without electricity or running water in the North Yorkshire moors." Sounds glorious! (Anthony Kaufman)

Delaware County News talks about the recent visit of April Lindner, author of Jane, to the Acamedy of Notre Dame de Namur (Villanova, PA):

April Lindner, the best-selling author of Jane, visited the Academy of Notre Dame’s Connelly Library on Friday, Dec. 10, to read portions of her book and talk to students about the writing process. Jane, a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, poses the question, what if Jane Eyre fell in love with a rock star? More than 50 interested members of the Notre Dame community attended the book talk. 

Chally on Feministe shares her reading plans for the coming year:

The plan is rereading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, then reading Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox. (Yes, I am a woman of widely varying reading interests.)

The Bookworm reviews Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth; La Collezionista di Dettagli posts about Maddalena De Leo's Italian translation of Charlotte Brontë's Henry Hastings; Meu Querido Diario reviews Wuthering Heights (in Portuguese); Simplyjessica's Blog loved reading Jane Eyre and the Brontë Sisters celebrates the anniversary of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë's marriage (December 29, 1812).

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