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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Cherwell reviews the film Saltburn:
However, the overarching reason why I wanted Saltburn to remain far from academic busybodying is that Saltburn, for myself, is a profound testament to the ability of directors to pull shock-value out of a hat. Which is not to say that the necrophilia, the sucking of semen from a drain, nor the murderous ascent to landed status is frivolous. It wasn’t frivolous when Emily Brontë slapped two of the above three into Wuthering Heights, anyway. Instead, it is all to say that ‘class’ and ‘power’ – two themes which haunt the Cherwell machine, primarily because they haunt the Oxford machine with an undeniable omnipresence – haunt Saltburn too. (Mor Stinchcombe)

InStyle (Mexico) and Jolie Bobine (France) also mention the reference. 

The Guardian reviews Inland by Gerald Murnane again:
 “A page of a book is not a window but a mirror,” we’re told, and the final thread of Inland is the narrator’s obsession with certain titles, particularly Wuthering Heights. It is a mark of either stunning self-confidence, or Murnane’s wry vision, that Inland ends with the closing lines of Brontë’s novel.  (John Self)
Berkshire Live gives some possible cosy winter weekend staycations. Including Oakworth, West Yorkshire:
Adventures through the surrounding moors, valleys and countryside await outside the cottage door. Stop off at the nearby town of Oakworth for lunch at Newsholme Manor or The Golden, both of which serve classic British dishes. Meanwhile, Howarth, home of the Bronte sisters, is also nearby, where guests can visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Waterfall. (Daniel Smith)
A very personal sentimental journey is described in The Madras Tribune:
Afterward, a four-year relationship with an English professor ended in fitting dramatic form when he rediscovered his childhood sweetheart while I was mourning the death of my father. Pulling his hands through his long grey hair, he declared, “We’re like Heathcliff and Cathy. I love her more than I love you!” I had to brush up on my “Wuthering Heights” to get it. Heathcliff and Catherine were soulmates.
Pinkvilla lists books for vocabulary building:
Wuthering Heights
Venture into the dark and tumultuous moors of Bronté's classic, absorbing the intense emotions and elevated language that define this timeless tale. (Raina Reyaz)
RTÉ (Ireland) reviews the book Good Material by Dolly Alderton:
As anyone from Emily Brontë to Emily Henry can attest to, there is endless road to run in romance and heartbreak. The irony here is that, for a writer with as storied and readily readable a background as Alderton’s, once she moves from real-life column to fiction, she doesn’t quite know how to plough new territory. (Charlotte Ryan)
El Placer de la Lectura lists books people lie about having read:
Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë.
De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y su rico e imponente patrón, todo en el marco truculento de una fantasmagoría gótica. Y olvidamos que, antes y después de la relación central con el volcánico señor Rochester, la heroína tiene otras relaciones, otras historias: episodios escalofriantes de una infancia tan maltratada como rebelde, años de enfermedad y aprendizaje en un tétrico internado, inesperados golpes de fortuna, e incluso remansos de paz familiar y nuevas -aunque engañosas- proposiciones de matrimonio. Olvidamos, en fin, que la novela es todo un libro de la vida, una confesión certera de un completo itinerario espiritual, y una exhaustiva ilustración de la lucha entre conciencia y sentimiento, entre principios y deseos, entre legitimidad y carácter, de una mujer que es la «llama cautiva» entre los extremos que forman su naturaleza. (...)
Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë.
La poderosa y hosca figura de Heathcliff domina Cumbres Borrascosas, novela apasionada y tempestuosa cuya sensibilidad se adelantó a su tiempo. Los brumosos y sombríos páramos de Yorkshire son el singular escenario donde se desarrolla con fuerza arrebatadora esta historia de venganza y odio, de pasiones desatadas y amores d esesperados que van más allá de la muerte y que hacen de ella una de las obras más singulares y atractivas de todos los tiempos.
A German podcast about the Brontës, Victorian bestsellers, on BR:
Im Jahr 1847 erscheinen in Großbritannien drei Romane von drei bisher unbekannten Männern, die Furore machen werden. Nur, wer sind die drei Newcomer, die die Literatur der viktorianischen Zeit auf den Kopf stellen werden? - Bald stellt sich heraus, es sind drei Schwestern, die Geschwister Brontë: Emily, Charlotte und Anne, die alle unter einem männlichen Pseudonym veröffentlichen. 
Autor dieser Folge: Martin Trauner
Regie: Martin Trauner
Es sprachen: Susanne Schroeder, Marlen Reichert, Christopher Mann
Technik: Roland Böhm
Redaktion: Andrea Bräu
Im Interview:
Dr. Katharina Pink – Dozentin für Englische Linguistik LMU München (Translation)

Yorkshire Post shares some pictures of the  Montane Winter Spine Race 2024 through Brontë country. Muddy Waters News shares an Emily Brontë quote for Valentine's Day. t-online (Germany) publishes a quiz with a Brontë-related question. La Repubblica (Italy) has an article about the giant wind farm project in Brotnë country.

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