Le cauchemar de Lockwood : sur la question de la Cruauté en Litérature (Lockwoods’ Nightmare: On the Question of Cruelty in Literature)

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to analyze the phenomenon of dream in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, especially the nightmare of Lockwood, one of the principal narrators. The author attempts to show that the dream in question plays an important role in the structure of the novel, and interprets the given passages against the background of the distinction between convertible and inconvertible violence, recently proposed – in a different context – by Étienne Balibar.

Keywords

• English literature
• psychoanalysis
• violence