 ... magnifying its angers into a demonic threat to existence itself. The means of such embrace (the mother) is almost wholly absent from the text, though its children rage and wail loudly enough to wake the dead. Nelly, rocking on her knee the motherless...  Cime tempestose - Pagina 425di Emily Brontë - 2005 - 438 pagineAnteprima limitata - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Patsy Stoneman - 2000 - 214 pagine
...dead. Nelly, rocking on her knee the motherless Hareton, hums a snatch of a ballad from Scott: 'It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat,/The mither beneath the mools heard that' (WH p. 76). In the song, as I have shown elsewhere (1983, pp. 156-7), the natural mother awakens in... | |
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