The Brontës weren't afraid of a love story

It's not official yet as the Venice Film Festival selection has not been released but it seems quite confirmed that Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights will be at the Lido. From The Telegraph:

As Cannes enters the final stretch, news of another festival worth attending - Venice, which begins on August 31. Confirmed films include David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (Freud meets Jung, with Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley); Roman Polanski's Carnage; British director Steve McQueen's Shame, Michael Winterbottom's reworking of Tess of the d'Urbevilles, and Andrea Arnold's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights. (Martin Chilton and Florence Waters)

The internet continues discussing Jane Eyre 2011:

Whether or not you agree we ever needed another "Jane Eyre" film adaptation, we got another one. But critics mostly agree it's one of the best of the bunch, given its mysterious slant on Charlotte Brontë's Gothic romance. (Ben Flanagan in Montgomery Al.com)

And What I Did Today, kimbab.sarang, For the Love of Lit..., Claridad (Puerto Rico).

Mardi McConnochie discusses in The Australian why writers are nowadays afraid of love stories:

Nineteenth-century novelists weren't afraid of a love story and it wasn't just Jane Austen and the Brontës: writers as different as Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy created grand, panoramic, ambitious novels with love stories at their centre.
Novels are ideally suited to love stories because they, more than any other art form, allow us to see into the minds of others, to eavesdrop on someone thinking and experiencing and feeling. A love story is the perfect narrative vehicle for demonstrating the thinking, feeling self in action.

Kindle, Nook, ebooks, new forms of reading in The Yorker:

Back in the C21st century, there is little doubt that books will be sticking around for a long time yet. But how we read them, and what we read, is changing. In one example, a revamp of Wuthering Heights by HarperTeen publishers has proved particularly controversial. Given a Twilight-esque jacket to appeal to younger readers, the novel appeared with the honorary stamp of approval ‘Bella and Edward’s favourite book.’ But if different forms of reading are engaging new readers, should we be judging a book by its cover? (Anne Mellar)

The Ashland Daily Times reviews Erin Blakemore's The Heroine's Bookshelf:

Jane Eyre's literary sisters include Mrs. De Winter in "Rebecca" and Catherine Earnshaw in "Wuthering Heights." Blakemore also identifies life events for which the novel may come in handy. After the "Steadfastness" chapter, in which she discusses Jane Eyre, she suggests revisiting the novel after a breakup or when you are not sure whether you can handle another bombshell. I'd add that it is also the perfect thing to read if you find out the man you love is already married and storing his insane wife in the attic of his mansion. (...)
Blakemore's book is a new favorite for me, and one I think I will revisit on occasion, just as I often find myself returning to visit old friends such as Scout Finch and Jane Eyre. (Angela Decker)

The Toronto Star has an article about the KVWR and The Railway Children-mania:

The small village of Haworth may be best known to literature lovers as the heart of Brontë country, but for most Brits that part of the Keighley and Worth valley in Yorkshire is all about “The Railway Children.” (Liz Fleming)

The Guardian takes a look at Bangladesh's madrasas and find echoes of Lowood:

Missions such as Huzoor Saleh's remain among the few places where a poor young woman can rise above the circumstances of her birth. It is no coincidence that the madrasa reminds me of Brontë; the gothic, in all its darkness and horror, is still a reality here. Huzoor Saleh's girls marry well; they take jobs at colleges and universities. Some even become scholars. There is something in my spirit that rebels when I walk through those dark-green corridors, but it is a rebellion against the fact that this place needs to exist at all, because, for so many in Bangladesh there is no alternative. (Tahmima Anam)

AfterEllen reviews the latest episode of the German soap opera Hand aufs Herz and makes a curious comparison:

Here’s a thing maybe you already know, but it bears repeating: The heroines of the Brontë novels control the weather with their emotions. And, very similarly, Emma Müller, controls the songs of STAG with her mood. (Heather Hogan)

Mobile Single Moms Examiner talks about our fast-paced world:

It's funny to read classic novels like Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre and be immersed in this time gone by where life seemed to move at such a slower pace. (Alana Kruse)

Wine and books in the Albany Times Union:

I’m in the middle of Becoming Jane Eyre by Shelia Kohler – a fictional account of how Charlotte Brontë created her most famous character that weaves historical fact with the author’s sensitive imagining of the Brontë sisters’ inner-workings. (Anna Bowers)

Notícias Sitedebaixada (Brazil) mentions the premiere of the theatre piece O incrível segredo da Mulher Macaco by Wendell Bendelack e Rodrigo Fagundes which was partially inspired by Wuthering Heights:

Mergulhando no universo do romance inglês “O morro dos ventos uivantes”, o dramaturgo e diretor teatral Saulo Sisnando transportou a trama da autora Emily Brontë da bucólica Yorkshire para Hollywood. Utilizando o conhecimento cinematográfico que adquiriu por anos como crítico e a experiência de já ter dirigido peças do gênero, Sisnando faz uma homenagem aos filmes hollywoodianos, aos personagens famosos e às celebridades reais. (Translation)

Neues Deutschland (Germany) reviews the Magdeburg performances of Gonzalo Galguera and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Wuthering Heights dance piece:

In zehn Bilder zweier Akte, umrahmt von Prolog und Epilog, gliedert sie sich hier und konzentriert sich unter Verzicht vieler Nebenfiguren ganz auf die Hauptgestalten. Noch als Greis hängt Heathcliff vor ihrem Gemälde der Erinnerung an seine Jugendliebe Cathy nach, durchlebt im Rückblick die Stationen gemeinsamen Leidens. Die Sturmhöhe, wo sich das Drama abspielt, visualisiert Juan Léons Bühnenbild findig als eine umhängende Serie aus Gemälden windzerzauster Landschaften. Das macht rasche Verwandlung zum eleganten Nachbarsinterieur unter Lüstern möglich.
Die Choreografie setzt alles erzählsicher in bildstarken neoklassischen Tanz um, dem eine spannungsvolle, unter Pawel Poplawski engagiert aufschäumende Musik zwischen Forte, Oboe und zarter Solovioline reichlich Pas de deux zuordnet. Vom kindlichen Versteckspiel übers tastende Finden der Hände bis zum so originell wie knifflig ertüftelten Gefühlsausbruch reicht die Skala, die Veronika Zemlyakova und Kirill Sofronow souverän bewältigen.
Das Gros an Tanz absolvieren indes die fünf zentralen Figuren: Jake Burdens aggressiver Hindley, Andreas Loos als vornehmer, in seiner Liebe zu Cathy unerschütterlicher Edgar, Emma Hanley Jones als seine infam von Heathcliff als Werkzeug benutzte, naive Schwester Isabella, vor allem die beiden Hauptgestalten. Wie fein Galguera die Fäden jener emotionalen Verwicklung spinnt, zu welchem Feuer er die Hitze schürt, macht seine »Stürmischen Höhen« zum Gefühlssturm.
Grell wie die Romanvorgabe ist das bisweilen, verbleibt auch von Stephan Stanisics Kostümen her in dessen Zeitepoche und findet erst im Epilog eine tröstliche Auflösung. Da gehen der sterbende Heathcliff und die Vision seiner toten Cathy in ein hoffentlich glücklicheres Nirgendwo ein. (Translation) (Volkmar Draeger)

Aechener Zeitung (Germany) about hyperemesis gravidarum doesn't forget to list it as the most probable cause of Charlotte Brontë's death; an article at a Tottenham Hotspurs website with a literary title: Great Expectations or Wuthering Heights?; On Paperblog (Italy) a curious reference in Shirley to a linen press;  D.N. Aloysius, Lecturer in English, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Rajarata University discusses Remembrance by Emily Brontë; Masquerade reviews Wuthering Heights 1998 (in Russian); The Rush Blog writes about Jane Eyre 1997;  Put Your Theatre Hat On has not made up her mind about Polly Teale's Brontë;  Luna Lunera (in Spanish), HS-SV (in Vietnamese), the quiet voice, Funky Book Stop and Il Sogno di Sonia post about Wuthering Heights;  BooksYAlove briefly talks about Clare B. Dunkle's The House of Dead Maids; The Book Nerd Club, Where Every Book is Fun-Tastic! and Reading While Female review or recommend Jane Eyre; Kaleidoscope has uploaded a Rochester illustration and The Sleepless Reader is reading and reviewing Juliet Barker's The Brontës.

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