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Film Intro – Letters to the Landscape
A box was found in an attic, along with old photographic equipment, containing family photographs, letters and over 300 postcards of Brontë Country. Polaroids, pinhole photographs and a map were also found in the box. This film is inspired by this collection.
Episode 5 – The Death of the Author
Her hands, autonomous, pick out some refrain buried deep within her core like a tuning fork sustaining a long clear note without diminuendo. Seeing with unearthly eyes, fixed as if hypnotized by shining shapes, she disappeared into brilliance
Still from Episode 4 – A Lovers spat
Still you beckoned me with your availability, your parlour games, your desire to cater to every whim, the promise to fulfil any fantasy. Your body gorged my vision. Replete with the extent of you, I could never see the end of you, never see beyond you, never get outside you, never get inside you…yet…always the feeling of you moving inside me. And it clings, and it rings and the falling begins.
Literary Landscapes
Sixty maps, a gazetteer, and critical essays place the great writers of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland against the background of their native regions. Identifies geographic locations mentioned in the works of English authors and discusses the influence locations may have had on their work.
Contents:
–Chaucer’s world: Chaucer’s London; Touring with Chaucer’s pilgrims; Chaucer overseas: the country of his mind —
–Shakespeare’s London —
–Dr. Johnson’s London —
–Charles Dickens’s London —
–Virginia Woolf’s London : a walking tour with Mrs. Dalloway —
–Bath —
–Lake poets —
–Romantic poets abroad —
–Bronte country —
–Thomas Hardy’s Wessex —
–Blackening of England —
–Scotland in literature : Kidnapped: a topographical novel; Edinburgh —
–Dublin of Yeats and Joyce: After Parnell; Wanderings of Ulysses; Other testimony —
–Atlas and gazetteer section: Atlas; General gazetteer; London gazetteer; Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Inns of Court; Schools; Geographical index.
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