Discussion on the novel (genre), Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights

• The novel

http://literatureiilv.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-novel.html

• Framing

FRAME NARRATIVE: The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones. Often this term is used interchangeably with both the literary technique and the larger story itself that contains the smaller ones, which are called pericopes, "framed narratives" or "embedded narratives." The most famous example is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which the overarching frame narrative is the story of a band of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The band passes the time in a storytelling contest. The framed narratives are the individual stories told by the pilgrims who participate. Another example is Boccaccio's Decameron, in which the frame narrative consists of a group of Italian noblemen and women fleeing the plague, and the framed narratives consist of the tales they tell each other to pass the time while they await the disease's passing. The 1001 Arabian Nights is probably the most famous Middle Eastern frame narrative. Here, in Bagdad, Scheherazade must delay her execution by beguiling her Caliph with a series of cliffhangers. FRAME STORY: See frame narrative. FRAMING METHOD: Using the same features, wording, setting, situation, or topic at both the beginning and end of a literary work so as to "frame" it or "enclose it." This technique often provides a sense of cyclical completeness or closure.

Source: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_F.html

• Distancing effect (Brecht)

Alienation effect, also called a-effect or distancing effect, German Verfremdungseffekt or V-effekt, idea central to the dramatic theory of the German dramatist-director Bertolt Brecht. It involves the use of techniques designed to distance the audience from emotional involvement in the play through jolting reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance.

Source: http://www.britannica.com/art/alienation-effect

• Galvanism

In medicine, galvanism refers to any form of medical treatment involving the application of pulses of electric current to body tissues provoking the contraction muscles that are stimulated by the electric current. This effect was named by Alessandro Volta after his contemporary, the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780's and 1790's. Galvani himself referred to the phenomenon as animal electricity, believing that he had discovered a distinct form of electricity.

Source: http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Definitions/galvanism.htm

• Cyborgs

The Cyborg Foundation

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Lost: Study Guide

• Primitivism // Civilization/Barbarity

"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling

Sobre Jeremy Button

El último confín de la tierra, Esteban Lucas Bridges

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. [1]

• Biography

• Encyclopaedia Britannica

• Poem Hunter

• Her poetry

• The Reader's Guide to Emily Brontë's Whuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights: Jacobs

Presentation on Jacobs

Key terms:

-Gender roles (gender theory)

-Dometic violence

-Patriarchal society: asserting power

-Distortion (ridicule) of male characters

-Power/discipline: justification of violence

Wuthering Heights: Eagleton

Presentation on Eagleton

Key terms:

-Binary oppositions

-Class: relationships of power

-Marxist criticism

Wuthering Heights: Matthews

Presentation on Matthews

Key terms:

-Frames

-Unreliable narrator

-Sinking frame (forgetting about the frame)

-Boundaries

-Frame merges with the story

Wuthering Heights: Makovski

Presentation on Makovski

Key terms:

-Dialogism

-Interpretation

-Misinterpretation

-The Mirror Stage

Wuthering Heights: Kermode

Presentation on Kermode

Key terms:

-Classic

-Ambiguity

-Openness

-Plurality of Interpretation

-Time

-Reader Response Theory

Wuthering Heights: Van Ghent

Presentation on Van Ghent

Key terms:

-Window Symbol

-"Two Children" Figure

-Binary opposition

-Outside of Ethics

-Human vs. Inhuman

-Incest

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights 

"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush (white dress version)



"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush (red dress version)



Parody of "Wuthering Heights" (Noel Fielding)



Cover of "Wuthering Heights" by Angra