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Overview
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights took the literary world by storm when it was published in 1847. There had never been a novel like it, and it continues to cast a powerful spell over readers to this day. This book takes extracts and examines them in close detail to explore how Brontë achieves her effects and to inquire into the significance of her characters and fable. The reader is taught to explore and appreciate the love-tragedy of Catherine and Heathcliff, the resonant images and symbols of the text, and the complex way the story is told.Author Biography: Nicholas Marsh is the author of three previous books in the Analysing Texts Series: Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Virginia Woolf: The Novels, and Jane Austen: The Novels.
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Booknews
Takes a practical but not unsophisticated approach to the process of understanding literary works, closely examining extracts of the novel to explore how Bront<:e> achieves her effects and to discover the layers of meaning in her characters, their conflicts, and the novel's images and symbols. Of likely interest to introductory college level readers and anyone seeking to understand critical literary analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1999
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Pages
249
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312223762