New Turkish and Indonesian Brontë-related scholar papers:
Affective Boundaries and Replication in Wuthering Heightsİpek Kotan Yi̇ği̇t
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies, Issue 2, 71 - 81, 23.01.2023
Although in the popular imagination Wuthering Heights evokes an aura of a gothic romance more than anything else, even a brief familiarity with the secondary literature makes it immediately evident that a confusion of boundaries and distinctions permeates Wuthering Heights on a formal, as well as a narrative and thematical level. In terms of genre, Wuthering Heights seems to occupy an ambiguous, liminal space; having generated a considerable amount of scholarly debate on whether it is a work of romance, or literary realism. Genre is important, as in settling this question, we also decide the manner in which we read the novel: which of its aspects to highlight and foreground, and which to assign a lesser degree of importance. Conventional literary criticism has mostly adopted an either/or approach to the question and then, often, argued for a conciliatory midpoint between the two alternatives, which are eventually discovered to be not so diametrically opposed, after all. I propose that instead of attempting to stabilize Wuthering Heights in order to subject it to this standard, supposedly dialectical hermeneutics, we acknowledge its movement and fluidity, and provide a coherent reading beginning from this grounding. I further argue that affect theory is a particularly useful instrument in reading Wuthering Heights, as it prioritizes movement and continuity rather than distinctions and categorizations, and I draw from scholars such as Sara Ahmed, Teresa Brennan, and Brian Massumi in order to demonstrate how affect theory might be brought to bear on a reading of the novel.Related Articles
Defence Mechanism Of The Main Characters In "Wuthering Heights" By Emily Brontë: Psychological ApproachGolan Hasan, Universitas Internasional Batam, IndonesiaThis research is about Defence Mechanism of the main characters of Wurhering Heights novel written by Emily Brontë. This research used psychology of literature approach to analyse the characters of intrinsic element of this fiction. It describes and identifies psychology of the main characters; Heathcliff and Catherine. by using the theory of Sigmund Freud (1961) which is divided into three psychic zones id, ego and superego. Thus, this research focuses on the plication of defence mechanism into the main characters of the novel Heathcliff and Catherine which described in the novel. In this research, the author applies qualitative method to analyse the novel and to find out the description of defence mechanism in Heathcliff and Catherine. Keywords: three psychic zones, defence mechanism, psychological approach. Wuthcring Heights
