Claims tagged with "Literature"

View all claims tagged with "Literature"

Clear Filter

Subject Tag

Extracted Claims (85)

Reginald Watson, an associate professor of literature at East Carolina University, has studied questions of Blackness in the works of the Brontës, including Emily’s sister Charlotte, the “Jane Eyre” a... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Race , Scholar

Simplified: Reginald Watson has studied questions of Blackness in the works of the Brontës including Emily’s sister Charlotte the “Jane Eyre” author.

1 sources

3 months ago
At one point, Heathcliff compares himself with Edgar Linton, whom Catherine will eventually marry, saying, “I wish I had light hair and fair skin.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Character , Appearance

Simplified: At one point Heathcliff compares himself with Edgar Linton saying “I wish I had light hair and fair skin”.

1 sources

3 months ago
As a boy, Heathcliff is brought into the home of Catherine Earnshaw (who becomes his romantic obsession) by her father, Mr. Earnshaw. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Character

Simplified: As a boy Heathcliff is brought into the home of Catherine Earnshaw by her father Mr Earnshaw.

1 sources

3 months ago
Susan Newby, learning officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, said, “There is a sense that he is not white Anglo-Saxon, he’s something else, but you don’t know what that is.” 1.000

👤 Susan Newby 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Race , Interpretation

Simplified: Susan Newby said “There is a sense that he is not white Anglo-Saxon he’s something else but you don’t know what that is”.

1 sources

3 months ago
Some scholars believe that Brontë was using Heathcliff to comment on the Liverpool slave trade. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Slavery , Interpretation

Simplified: Some scholars believe Brontë was using Heathcliff to comment on the Liverpool slave trade.

1 sources

3 months ago
In addition to being called “dark” and a “gipsy,” he is also referred to as a “Lascar,” a term for South Asian laborers on British ships. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Race , Terminology

Simplified: In addition to being called “dark” and a “gipsy” he is also referred to as a “Lascar” a term for South Asian laborers on British ships.

1 sources

3 months ago
The servant Nelly Dean suggests that Heathcliff could be a “prince in disguise,” continuing, “Who knows but your father was emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Character , Speculation

Simplified: The servant Nelly Dean suggests Heathcliff could be a “prince in disguise” continuing “Who knows but your father was emperor of China and your mother...

1 sources

3 months ago
In Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” Heathcliff is described as a “dark-skinned gipsy.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: In Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” Heathcliff is described as a “dark-skinned gipsy”.

1 sources

3 months ago
Diamond wrote In Search Of The Primitive: A Critique Of Civilization. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Academic Article 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Diamond wrote In Search Of The Primitive: A Critique Of Civilization

1 sources

3 months ago
There would be no Impressionism without the renegade salons of Paris in the late 1800s; no modernist literature without the gatherings of Bloomsbury Group authors like Virginia Woolf in their London h... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Literature , History

Simplified: Impressionism would not exist without Paris salons in the late 1800s modernist literature would not exist without Bloomsbury Group gatherings in the e...

1 sources

3 months ago
Last century was full of such metaphysical sleuthery, from G.K. Chesterton (“The Man Who Was Thursday”) to Eugene Ionesco (“The Killer”) to Geoff Dyer (“The Search”). 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: Last century was full of metaphysical sleuthery from G.K. Chesterton to Eugene Ionesco to Geoff Dyer

1 sources

3 months ago
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was written by William L. Shirer in 1960. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: William L Shirer wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1960

1 sources

3 months ago
A little knowledge of Murdoch’s life helps. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Biography

Simplified: Knowledge of Murdoch's life helps

1 sources

3 months ago
Murdoch said in an interview, that “poets can express much more than novelists, this connected sense of something which is simple and lucid and true and non-bogus and at the same time oddly accidental... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Murdoch said poets can express much more than novelists

1 sources

3 months ago
He is headed toward an “obscure hotel / Where he is waited for.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: He is headed toward an obscure hotel where he is waited for

1 sources

3 months ago
The best are strong enough that it’s as if she carved them, with a knife, onto a library desk. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: The best are strong enough as if she carved them with a knife onto a library desk

1 sources

3 months ago
“Poems From an Attic” does not greatly extend our understanding of Murdoch. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Poems From an Attic does not greatly extend understanding of Murdoch

1 sources

3 months ago
He considers how his wife would have reacted. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: He considers how his wife would have reacted

1 sources

3 months ago
The editors note that this poem describes a concert Murdoch attended with her friends Philippa and Michael Foote, and refers to a “‘quadrilateral tale’ of partner-swapping that had occurred over a dec... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: The editors note the poem describes a concert Murdoch attended with Philippa and Michael Foote and refers to a "quadrilateral tale" of partner-swappin...

1 sources

3 months ago
She is remarried with children. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: She is remarried with children

1 sources

3 months ago