Spaces of Death in Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights

Autor:	J. Albert Myburgh
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Power (social and political) Social order Literature and Literary Theory State (polity) media_common.quotation_subject Depiction Gender studies Sociology Ideology Social constructionism Empowerment Relation (history of concept) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Literary Studies. 30:20-33
ISSN:	1753-5387 0256-4718
DOI:	10.1080/02564718.2014.887615
Popis:	SummaryIn this article I explore the idea expressed by philosophers and social geographers such as Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja, and Henk van Houtum that “space” is a social construct; that the space in which a society exists and of which it consists is shaped by that society itself, and that specific locations are assigned to each of the members of the community. I discuss how the dominant spaces in society are shaped by those in positions of authority according to their own ideologies so as to ensure social order and their continued empowerment within the social structure. Additionally, I suggest that it is possible for those who do not conform to social norms, and who are consequently cast into dominated spaces, to undermine the authority of those in positions of power by embracing their marginalised state, and thereby to generate new spaces they can inhabit. I explore these ideas in relation to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and its depiction and examination of central nineteenth-century ideas and an...
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