1. Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present Session Four

2. Agenda Wuthering Heights Demon Lovers Literary projects and cultural studies assignments

3. Wuthering Heights A Summary of Session Three: The similarities between ”La Belle Dame …”, ”The Lady of Shalott” and Wuthering Heights –The frame structure –The frame and the questions of entry, exit, reading, and writing –allegory

4. Wuthering Heights The three generations

5. Heathcliff and Cathy The sequence of unions and seperations What atttacts them: Opposites? Complementary halves? Similar? What seperates them? Physical, social, psychological borders

6. Oppositions The characters The settings

7. Brontë’s Idea of Love Unlimited desire (122) Moralising (282) Duty (289)

8. Demon Lovers What is a demon lover? Is Darcy a demon lover?

9. Darcy - 199

10. Darcy 199

11. Darcy

12. Darcy - 2005

13. Darcy – 19th Century

14. Literary projects and cultural studies assignments Desire in Wuthering Heights: Desire and story (fabula / histoire): love, ambition, knowledge, survival, &c Desire and plot (sjuzet / discourse / récit): Barthes’ notion of ”the passion of / for meaning” (37), i.e., ”desire as that which is initiatory of narrative, motivates and energizes its reading, and animates the combinatory play of sense making” (48). The significant design, the meaningful ordering of narrative, ”the organizing line and intention of narrative” (37). ”desire as dynamic of signification”.

15. Literary projects and cultural studies assignments Desire and ”narration” (narration). See Brooks 1984: 332n19. Brooks quotes Genette’s definition of the term (the narrative act of producing the récit (i.e. plot, sjuzet/ discourse), and, by extension, the whole of the fictitious or real situation in which it takes place). Further, Brooks glosses narration ”as the moments and ways in which narratives speak of and dramatize the act and the agency of their production”. We are dealing, then, with the act or process or the performance rather than with the result – the product. The desire to tell, to be ”heard, recognized, listened to” (53)

16. Bibliography Brooks, Peter. 1984. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Harvard University Press.

17. Literary projects and cultural studies assignments ”’Austen for Fun’: The Rebublic of Pemberly”: –Republic, haven, community, citizens, Pemberleans, pilgrimage, volunteer committee vs. The world –Homework policy – Austen for fun vs. Need for information Theory: Bourdieu, Habermas