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Sunday 30 September 2012

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The eternal controversy between novels and their film adaptations is discussed on Varsity, with special attention to Wuthering Heights 2011:
Something fitting more firmly into the ‘controversial’ category would be Andrea Arnold’s version of Wuthering Heights. The film had a number of Brontë purists splurting tea into their bonnets at the liberties Arnold took with the story; at one stage having Heathcliff (cast as black) tell the assembled guests of the Earnshaw household to “Fuck off, you cunts.” However, the choices Arnold made in her adaptation are indicative of a provocative filmmaker, who knows which contemporary buttons to press. Her casting of Heathcliff as black, and having a grim kitchen-sink drama feel to the Earnshaw family lends some sort of modern relevance, and breaking free from the stereotypical adaptation. In addition, her realisation of location in Wuthering Heights is simply fantastic, the sound and cinematography bringing the moors and landscape in as a character itself. Far from taking excessive liberties with the story as perceived, she should be applauded for a vision that is both evocative and belligerent, offering something beyond the brand name of a classic novel. (Jim Ross)
Denver Post discusses several TV series where
The hero with a deep, character-defining secret is not what he seems. (...)
The concept of a character with an all-consuming secret is a time-tested one in literature. (...)
Eleanor McNees, a University of Denver associate dean and professor of languages and literature, notes Charles Dickens wrote about "deep, dark secrets of identity" in "A Tale of Two Cities" and in "Great Expectations."
McNees also points to "Jane Eyre," in which Charlotte Bronte toys with the mystery of the madwoman in the attic, and "The Great Gatsby," in which Fitzgerald's Nick changes his name from humble beginnings in Minnesota and passes himself off as rich. (Joanne Ostrow)
The Nashua Telegraph interviews the writer Eric Stanway:
Name some of your favorite books and authors. Ulysses” by James Joyce, “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, “1984” by George Orwell, “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. (Donna Roberson)
Another Brontëite of sorts is the novelist Betty Cotter:
Top Item in My Bucket List. Visiting England, Ireland and Wales. My husband is Irish and I’m Welsh and English, going back many generations. I’d like to visit all of England’s great author sites, including the homes of Dickens, the Brontës, and Virginia Woolf. (The Westerly Sun)
The Knoxville Sentinel reviews The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch:
Welch has written a warm and affectionate paean to the love of books and the highs and lows of bookstore ownership. Incorporating quotations by prominent book lovers from Oscar Wilde to Dr. Seuss, the Dalai Lama to Charlotte Brontë, Welch tells her story with easy, self-deprecating grace in chapters with titles such as "How to Be Attacked by Your Heart's Desire" and "What Happens in the Bookstore Stays in the Bookstore." Welch is the first to admit that owning a bookstore has been a bumpy ride, but it's one that neither she nor Beck would trade: "In the midst of having very little time to do as we like," she writes, "we very much like what we are doing." (Tina LoTufo)
The Times interviews JK Rowling and asks with which writer she would like to have dinner:
Oh, and I discounted Jane Austen, who is on some days my favourite author of all time, because I think she’d be a bit scary. Was it Emily Brontë who said she had a mind like a small pair of scissors? (Erica Wagner)
Actually, it was Harold Nicolson who described Jane Austen's mind like a very small, sharp pair of scissors.

Also in The Times we find a list of places to go in autumn.  Such as East Riddlesden Hall:
The hall has been used as a location for two different film versions of Wuthering Heights and is said to be haunted by more than one ghost. (Rufus Purdy)
The Toronto Sun defines in a few words the new NBC project Napa:
NBC's upcoming show, Napa, will be a modern take on Wuthering Heights Less of the mysterious, lingering wasting illnesses, more smokin' hot, shirt-less grape-stompers. (Malene Arpe)
Aš skaitau (in Lithuanian) reviews Wuthering Heights; Read Awesome-Nity is reading Jane Eyre; Danyele Bueno (in Portuguese) reviews Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë; Ygraine posts a Jane Eyre-inspired poem; ellenőrzőpont.(in Hungarian) posts about Jane Eyre 2011.

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