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Coste, Bénédicte. "Wuthering Heights : lectures." Montpellier 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996MON30054.

Bhattacharya, Sumangala. "Wuthering Heights: A Proto-Darwinian Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500893/.

Broome, Sean. "'Wuthering Heights' and the othering of the rural." Thesis, University of Derby, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/584017.

McGuire, Kathryn B. (Kathryn Bezard). "The Incest Taboo in Wuthering Heights." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500863/.

McGuire, Kathryn B. (Kathryn Bezard). "The Incest Taboo in Wuthering Heights : A Modern Appraisal." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277599/.

Myburgh, Jan Albert. "Space and borders in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79289.

Voroselo, Brian P. "The Non-Specificity of Location in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1281457765.

Matzker, Faith Lynn. "Wuthering Heights, Plato's Symposium, and the Unity of Being." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1220.

Uusitalo, Kemi Julia. "Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35365.

Hutchins, Jessica. "Le Texte Déstabilisé : Les Effets de la réécriture et de la traduction dans Wuthering Heights, La Migration des coeurs, et Windward Heights." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/458.

Edström, John. "”I was anxious to keep her in ignorance” : - berättarperspektiv och makt i Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för svenska och litteratur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-104253.

Faste, Ingrid. "Resor och möten i Wuthering Heights : immram, echtrae & Leabhar Gabhála Éireann." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Litteraturvetenskap, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2411.

Belser-Tröger, Virginie. "L'écriture du diabolisme dans le roman féminin : Wuthering heights d'Emily Bronte͏̈ et Precious Bane de Mary Webb." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030089.

Tam, Ieok Lin. "A comparative study of three Chinese translations of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554092.

Moura, Caroline Navarrina de. "A walk with Catherine and Jane : the exposure of gothic conventions in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/172913.

Wu, Min-Hua. "La dialectique victorienne : une interprétation sociopolitique de Jane Eyre et de Wuthering Heights des sœurs Brontë." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040083.

Abdul, Kareem Ala'a. "A Psychoanalytical Reading of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights : An Analysis of the Defense Mechanisms of Some Characters." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Litteraturvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-5996.

Randriambeloma-Rakotoanosy, Ginette. "Le roman féminin victorien et son rayonnement : Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights et leurs lectrices à Madagascar, notamment en Imerina dans les années soixante." Dijon, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987DIJOL020.

Prieto, Prieto Claudia. "The confluence of gender and its influence: towards a new vision of characterisation in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2015. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/137779.

Dias, Daise Lilian Fonseca. "A subversão das relações coloniais em o morro dos ventos uivantes: questões de gênero." Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6161.

Singh, Jyoti. "The presentation of the orphan child in eighteenth and early nineteenth century English literature in a selection of William Blake's 'Songs of innocence and experience', and in Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre', and Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005628.

Beriotto, Giorgia <1996&gt. "The Sublime Burke’s Aesthetic Theory of the Sublime and its Reflections on 19th Century Novels: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21153.

Fanning, Sarah Elizabeth. "Changing fictions of masculinity : adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, 1939-2009." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8524.

Zgodinski, Brianna R. "I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization of Intimate Partner Abuse in Young Adult Retellings of Wuthering Heights." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1518101149052937.

Angel-Cann, Lauryn. "Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2586/.

Wall, Anna-Lena. "Maktspel och död i två gotiska verk : En analys av Catherine Earnshaw och Madeleine Usher med fokus på makt och temat döden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-106996.

Turner, Stephanie. "Serving the Storyline of the Novel: The Powerful Role of the Feudal Servant-Narrator." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2009. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/10.

Zhou, Jian. "Contemporary Chinese readers' interpretation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1780783.

Nagorsen, Kastlander Annika. ""Aching heart, troubled soul" - Feministisk litteraturteori och Wuthering Heights." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12639.

Al-Abdulrazaq, Mohammad Ahmed. "The role of strangers in Victorian novels: A psychoanalytical study of their repressions, functions and aspirations." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1400.

Moody, Kathryn Irene. "A twice-told gothic romance the anatomical differences in Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly's L'ensorcelée and Emily Brontë's Wuthering heights /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0002723.

McNierney, James. "The Brontë Attachment Novels: An Examination of the Development of Proto-Attachment Narratives in the Nineteenth Century." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1887.

Wilson, Amy. "Folklore and Identity in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/221.

Lin, Carrie Hsiang-Yun, and 林湘昀. "Extreme Representations in Emily Bronte''s Wuthering Heights." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78634986174875317423.

Murray, Desrosiers Julie. "L'écriture du mal chez Emily Brontë : infantile et pulsion de mort dans Wuthering heights." Mémoire, 2009. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2374/1/M11029.pdf.

Feng, Lorraine Sho-yi, and 馮秀儀. "A Psychological Study of Wuthering Heights: Understanding Emily Bronte." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73861167696421211762.

Miranda, Pamela C. "Eternal years : religion, psychology, and sexuality in the art of Emily Bronte." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/37545.

Aubed, Maan. "Losses, Gains and Survivals in English-Arabic Literary Translation: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: A Case Study." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/1793.

Cheng, Hui-chen, and 鄭慧真. "Revelation of Mendacity: Desire and Jealousy in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64499275643040877216.

Chen, Wan-Yun, and 陳宛昀. "The Androgyny in Wuthering Heights:A Gender Study of Emily Brontë’s Romantic Aesthetics." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98680748925647865184.

Li-hua, Chan, and 詹麗華. "The Elements Making Up the Setting of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84496100760413405133.

ŠVECOVÁ, Eva. "Vliv gotického románu na téma mezilidských vztahů v díle Emily Brontëové Wuthering Heights." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-50142.

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Written when gender roles were far more rigid and defined than they are now, Wuthering Heights examines stereotypes of masculinity and femininity. Emily Brontë constantly contrasts masculinity and femininity, but not all of the comparisons are simple; sometimes boys act like girls and girls act like boys. Edgar Linton and Linton Heathcliff , for instance, are men, but Brontë frequently describes them as having the looks and attributes of women. Likewise, Catherine Earnshaw has many masculine characteristics; even though she is outrageously beautiful, she loves rough, outdoor play and can hold her own in any fight. She is a complex mix of hyper-feminine grace and loveliness and ultra-masculine anger and recklessness. Heathcliff , with his physical and mental toughness, has no such ambiguities—he is exaggeratedly masculine and scorns his wife Isabella for her overblown femininity.

Emily Brontë seems to favor masculinity over femininity, even in her women. In general, she portrays weak, delicate characters with contempt, while she treats strong and rugged characters like Heathcliff, both Catherines, and Hareton, with compassion and admiration, despite their flaws.

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To talk of “using” film adaptations of novels in order to teach literature will immediately raise the hackles of all film and television critics who quite justifiably choose to focus on these media for their own sake. One of the reasons that adaptation studies has enjoyed a fairly low status among film critics is, as John Ellis notes, its employment in literary departments to encourage “recalcitrant students … to read the original novel” (qtd. Cardwell, 2002, p. 37). Ira Konisberg’s entry on adaptation in The Complete Film Dictionary actually defines it as a “subliterary discourse” designed to show that “great novels” are resistant to filming (qtd. Griffith, 1997, p. 6). While recognizing the centrality of adaptation studies to “any history of culture” interested in “the transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures,” Mirceia Aragay also deplores the way it is “often taught in literature departments as a way of sugaring the pill of (canonical) literature for an increasingly cinema-oriented student population” (2005, p. 30). Robert Ray is even more dismissive of the way in which the “same unproductive layman’s question (How does the film compare with the book?)” is transparently designed to elicit “the same unproductive answer (The book is better)” (2000, p. 44). That, of course, is not the model of such comparative study of novels with their adaptations which I want to advocate.

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Wuthering Heights is a Victorian novel written by Emily Brontë, who made an excellent use of her narrative skills to make the reader play an active role in the reading and interpretation of the novel. The figure of the villain in this intense and complicated love story has become a polemic topic discussed by many different critics, whose final conclusions are not always the same. The violent, unexpected and sometimes incomprehensible actions carried out by the mysterious Heathcliff have led many readers and critics to consider him to be the villain par excellence of the novel. However, it should be noted that, despite all his evil actions, there is something that on the other hand turns him into the hero and sufferer of the story: his impossible love for Catherine Earnshaw. The narrator, Ellen Dean, has also been regarded by some critics as the devilish villain of the story, due to her capacity to control the other characters and most of the situations that take place over the cours...

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This paper seeks to examine how Heathcliff is portrayed as a Charming Anti-hero in Emily Bronte&#39;s Wuthering Heights. The focus on the Anti-hero is a departure from the prominence given to the hero in literature. This article explores the concept of the Anti-hero and how the character has been handled in works of literature. It also examines the evolution of the Anti-hero in works of literature and offers an explanation as to why he should be a significant literary figure to study.

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    Introduction Wuthering Heights has undergone continuous analysis since its publication in 1847, receiving both harsh criticism and vigorous praise from reviewers and literary critics. Changing beliefs about the purpose and value of literature have been the cause of these shifting attitudes towards the novel.

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    cultural history. My third, and perhaps most significant, encounter with Wuthering Heights came via the indirect means of the 1992 screen adaptation of the novel, Peter Kosminsky's Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.3 From here, the novel elicited more contexts and I began to ask myself why Wuthering Heights is bound-up with personal,

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