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Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre - one of the most popular English novels of all time - has fascinated scholars and a wide reading public alike and has proved a source of inspiration to successive generations of creative writers and artists. There is hardly any other hypotext that has been re-worked in so many adaptations for stage and screen, has inspired so many painters and musicians, and has been so often imitated, re-written, parodied or extended by prequels and sequels. New versions in turn refer to and revise older rewritings or take up suggestions from Brontë scholarship, creating a dense intertextual web. The essays collected in this volume do justice to the variety of media involved in the Jane Eyre reworkings, by covering narrative, visual and stage adaptations, including an adaptor's perspective. Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels. The volume thus offers a comprehensive collection of reworkings that also takes into account recent novels, plays and works of art that were published after Patsy Stoneman's seminal 1996 study on Brontë Transformations.

This article addresses the rise of vigil in Victorian literature, a phenomenon that both reinforced and grew out of the period's commitment to the moral importance of concentration. Drawing together poetic formalism, Victorian religious literature, and the growing critical field of attention studies, I trace the contours of vigilance as it appears in the writings of John Henry Newman and the poetry of the most prolific Victorian innovator of the vigil form, Christina Rossetti. I suggest that we understand vigil in Victorian prose and poetry as not merely thematically engaged in attentiveness, but also as actively encouraging attentive reading practices. In treating reading as a training ground in lengthy mental absorption, writers sought to reinforce habits of concentration during an age of waning attention spans.

Jane Eyre has won worldwide reputation owing to Charlotte's skillful writing and the inspired feminist rebellious spirit. This paper mainly focuses on the analysis and appreciation of Song Zhaolin's translated work of Jane Eyre based on the dynamic equivalence strategy he used. The author of the original work Charlotte Bronte put a lot of her own experiences into Jane Eyre, which can also be shown in Song's translation. He also combined free and literal translation strategies in the translating process, which results in both faithful and expressive effect. Index Terms--Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, dynamic equivalence, combined strategy

Digital publishing has severed the relationship between books and their packaging. E-books also transform the public/private side of reading--and how readers choose books.

Risse ponders her feelings of guilt as a woman academic of privilege living in Oman when coming face to face with the realities of the ardors of physical labor that most Omani men confront on a daily basis, while she eads about the evils of Western oppression. She wonders how academics navigate the space between theory and practice.

Argues that when introductory activities to the classics begin with background information, it can upstage or confine the life of the story, and shows little faith in the students as readers or in the literature itself. Suggests sometimes letting the literature begin, and then helping students make sense of it. Discusses examples from \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" and Shakespeare. (SR)

Describes how current critical literary theory has changed one teacher's approach to three canonical texts, by viewing texts as production and construction, unconsciously produced and inscribed by history, ideology, and politics. Notes that recent theory has been a liberating force allowing respect for student comments formerly deemed silly and encouraging students into closer readings. (SR)

In commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of Emily Bronte's birth on July 30, 1818 (d. 1848), Oxford University Press has reissued its Companion to the Brontes, by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith and seven other contributors.1 Dozens of pages of maps, pictures, a section on Dialect and Obsolete Words, a Classified Contents List, and a three-column Chronology (The Lives of the Brontes, Literary and Artistic Events, Historical Events) accompany the nearly six hundred pages of compact, authoritative, and engaging (if frequently esoteric) entries with enormous variations in length. The protagonist-avenger's victim is walled up, brick by brick, in a wine cellar. Because he is awake but bound to the inner wall, he sees what is happening as it happens and knows what comes next-forever, until a gruesome death from starvation, thirst, and madness. First Hindley checks some boxes, victimizing Heathcliff, then the maestro, playing a very long game (some twenty-five years), checks all of them. The Companion (with no entries on revenge or Poe, and only a snippet on Penistone Crags, the only actual place named in the novel) tells the reader that the Bronte home-life was utterly unlike the world rendered by Emily (there had been five siblings, and the reader is happy to learn much about Anne); that, including much research, she had been composing the book since her mid-twenties and had written precursors; that the prior success of Charlotte's more accomplished Jane Eyre got Wuthering Heights more notice than otherwise might have been the case; and that Charlotte's memorial to her dead sisters in the 1850 edition helped maintain the shelf life of the book.

From across the room, 1 can see the autobiography of Lili'uokalani, the Hawaiian queen and songwriter who composed \"Aloha 'Oe,\" Sigrid Nunez's \"The Friend\" and two novels by Marie-Claire Blais, a Québécoise writer who now lives in Key West: \"La Belle Bete\" and \"Soifs.\"What's the last great book you read? I just read two great books at the same time: 1 reread Jean Stafford's \"The Mountain Lion,\" which is one of the strangest and angriest novels of the 20th century, and for the first time I read Morgan Parker's \"There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé,\" a brilliant poetry collection playing so cunningly with pop culture that it reminded me that pop culture is astonishingly deep and fascinating and is only considered frivolous because it - like caretaking careers and the domestic sphere - is devalued for being considered primarily feminine.Which childhood books and authors stick with you most? I was a shy child, and vastly preferred books to people, so I devoured absolutely everything with no discernment at all until I was in middle school, which is excellent training to be a novelist.