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On the Consciousness of Labyrinth in Wuthering Heights

Author(s)

Zhang Yan1, He Huixuan2

Affiliation(s)

1Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China 2Shandong Vocational University of Foreign Affairs, Shandong, China

Abstract

Scince a long time ago, Emily Bronte with her labyrinth-like life experience has been called “Sphinx” in the Britain Literature, while her only novel Wuthering Heights has been called “The Riddle of Sphinx” in the History of Literature. In this fantastial novel, full of riddle-like placename and the name of character, the mult-angle of view labyrinth-like narrative framework, mult-character’s image-building and the mult-interpretations text motives, invariably make it filling with the consciousness of labyrinth. The construction of the consciousness of labyrinth, make her work independ of and surmount the literature mainstream of the Victorian, consequently make this novel take on vivid art purport and intention point of modernism.

Keywords

Wuthering Heights; Dedalus; Consciousness of Labyrinth; Visual Angle of Narration.

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