'Soul Purpose'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think there are lots of dogs in Wuthering Heights, not just dead puppies. The Linton's have dogs that bite Catherine I (Fanny?) and Heathcliff (I think) has a dog named Skulher.
Anyway I tend to think Wuthering Heights is a great story, but the narration within a narration starts to wear a bit.
IMO, the second generation comes pretty close, P-C.(I love that book. Why'd I say such a bitchy thing?)
Zombies would totally make Wuthering Heights better.
Isn't Edgar a zombie? Because he sure the hell seems like one....
With regard to the Andrew Solomon article, I certainly had times in English classes in which I'd have been willing to blame global warming on deconstructionism, in part because I had professors who used it as a hammer to beat works of literature to death. I'd be willing to concede that some of the reduction in reading might be related to the devaluing of the canon, but deconstructionism was only a small part of that process. The devaluing of the canon came more from efforts, which sometimes went too far, to get away from teaching only dead white men, plus a variety of other critical approaches such as reader-response.
There also does seem to be more social pressure against being smart than there was when I was young. I have several friends with very bright young teenage girls who have gone out of their way to not be seen as "smart," including not turning in homework that they'd done. It's clearly not cool. Of course, I doubt if I would have known what was cool when I was in high school. I was, after all, president of the science club.
Also, I missed the dead puppies.
I need to go find this scene or retire it from my repertoire of references.
I'm almost done with Wuthering Heights. You know what would make this book better? Zombies.
So. Damn. True.
I think there are dead bunnies...that Lockwood mistakes for cats. But maybe Heathcliff killed puppies, too...it seems like something he would do, in midlife, anyway.
I'm almost done with Wuthering Heights. You know what would make this book better? Zombies.
I was kind of hoping for them in the second half...
That second generation is a bit tranquilized, compared to the HeathcliffNKathiforevah!1! arc. I know they are the best hope for a happy ending but still... Maybe P-C sort of got his zombies. IJS. And I'm hoping nobody's horribly offended by my ficification of one of the greatest novels of the 19th century, but if there was fic then, it'd be about them...every fifteen-yo's OTP.
Actually, I think my 15 yo OTP was Dagny and John. I was much much different then.