دراسات فنية
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 174-184
2021-12-26
An Artistic Perspective Of Yorkshire Folklore And Its Cultural Significance Through Emily Bronte’s Novel Wuthering Heights
Authors : Belmerabet Fatiha .
Abstract
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights seems to be frequented by the British folklore that is not an element from stories published in Victorian Journals; it is lively present in the life of Yorkshire people. Moreover, it symbolizes an ongoing agitation that governed the relationship between the middle and the lower classes in 19th century Britain. The middle-class Victorian folklorists worked to collect folkloric materials like songs and old stories. This activity was engaged in constructing the British cultural identity yet, it was intentionally involved in excluding some cultural groups like the rustic northerners. Therefore, and throughout creating a biased image, they deemed these people’s arts and culture as strange and primitive. Wuthering Heights appears to rival the folklorists' assumptions and depicts another perception. The present paper tries to shed light on two folkloric elements utilized by E. Bronte in Wuthering Heights. It also analyses the way they interact in the story and the way the author depicts their cultural significance differently from other authors.
Keywords
Wuthering Heights’ ; artistic perspective ; British Yorkshire folklore ; cultural significance
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