Essays about: "Emily Brontë"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Emily Brontë.
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1. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff
University essay fromAbstract : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. READ MORE
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2. Gender Fluidity in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. The Development of The Trope of Hauntings in Gothic Fiction : A Comparative Analysis of Wuthering Heights and The Haunting of Hill House
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The research conducted in this paper will concern the development of the Gothic trope of hauntings in a comparative analysis of two gothic novels, Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson. The analysis will focus on how hauntings of various forms are presented and what they represent in the two texts before and after the development of psychoanalytical studies, particularly Sigmund Freud’s conceptualization of “Das Unheimliche”. READ MORE
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4. Representations of gender in Wuthering Heights : An analysis of Masculinity and femininity and women as the abject
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this essay is to analyse gender representations in Wuthering Heights byusing French literary criticism. French literary critics thought that the language ofliterature was predominantly phallocentric as male authors, who helped shape thatlanguage, dominated it. READ MORE
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5. Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay analyses and compares gender construction in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The focus is on the construction of the female and male gender of selected female and male characters. READ MORE