This paper attempts a postmodern study of Emily Bronte"s novel, Wuthering Heights. Set in th... more This paper attempts a postmodern study of Emily Bronte"s novel, Wuthering Heights. Set in the Yorkshire moors of England, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, a year before Emily Bronte"s death (1818-1848). It is the only novel written by her. She wrote this novel during an era when the ideology of realism was developing on the basis of faith in individualism. Individualism was turning out to be central to the plot of the contemporary novel-writing. But, due to the complexity associated with individualism, an acute problematisation of the idea of classic realism in the novel-genre was inevitable. The notion of reality, and of classic realism, in the novel gets fractured by talking about an individual"s external as well as internal life. This paper represents some of the postmodern features responsible for causing this fracture of "reality" in Wuthering Heights. With a brief introduction to postmodern theory, the first part of this paper deals with the un...
This paper attempts a postmodern study of Emily Bronte"s novel, Wuthering Heights. Set in th... more This paper attempts a postmodern study of Emily Bronte"s novel, Wuthering Heights. Set in the Yorkshire moors of England, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, a year before Emily Bronte"s death (1818-1848). It is the only novel written by her. She wrote this novel during an era when the ideology of realism was developing on the basis of faith in individualism. Individualism was turning out to be central to the plot of the contemporary novel-writing. But, due to the complexity associated with individualism, an acute problematisation of the idea of classic realism in the novel-genre was inevitable. The notion of reality, and of classic realism, in the novel gets fractured by talking about an individual"s external as well as internal life. This paper represents some of the postmodern features responsible for causing this fracture of "reality" in Wuthering Heights. With a brief introduction to postmodern theory, the first part of this paper deals with the un...
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