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Article: Unheimliche heights: the (en)gendering of Bronte sources.
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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In this essay I present evidence for some unacknowledged "sources" of Wuthering Heights: a questionable enterprise. Traditional source criticism, the search for ways one text or writer has directly influenced another, has been disparaged for quite some time by many influential theorists. In 1973 Harold Bloom derided the "wearisome industry of source-hunting." Two years earlier Roland Barthes had explained that "to try to find the 'sources,' the 'influences' of a work, is to fall in with the myth of filiation," asserting that the "intertextual" in which every text is held ... is not to be confused with some origin of the text." His word "intertextual" [intertextualite] ...
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