{"id":176,"date":"2008-08-31T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-04-05T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T14:53:40","slug":"rita-interviews-with-gonzalo-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/rita-interviews-with-gonzalo-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of _Jane in the Box_ on the Bronte Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Review of \u00a0<em>Jane in the Box<\/em> on the Bront\u00eb Blog<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><H3><br \/>\nExcerpt from a Review of <strong><em>Jane-in-the-Box<\/em><\/strong> posted August 21, 2008 on The Bront\u00eb Blog by M.<\/p>\n<p>Another collection of poems can be described as poetical retellings of different given episodes of Jane Eyre, with many references extracted from the contemporary American cultural context (from Macy&#8217;s to Chanel or Mary Kay cr\u00e8mes). Here we can find poems of extraordinary richness of detail and unashamed intertextuality like the Mortification Triptych, Jane addresses Edward, Fashion remedy, St John pops the question or the Rochester Triptych (the only ones where Rochester is allowed to speak his mind(4).<\/p>\n<p>The chapbook ends with a poem, The appropriation of Jane, that serves as an excellent coda to the the whole work. Using references to her own Cuban origins, the author describes the fascination which Jane Eyre has on her. The best way to end this brief review of this charming little book of poems is quoting from a paragraph from this last poem:<\/p>\n<p>this poem is about the quintessential<br \/>\nPlain Jane: Jane Eyre, who graciously helps<\/p>\n<p>birth poems stubborn as kidney stones,<br \/>\nmischievous poems that hopscotch<\/p>\n<p>across the page because I&#8217;ve ripped<br \/>\noff Charlotte Bront\u00eb heroine<br \/>\n<\/H3><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of \u00a0Jane in the Box on the Bront\u00eb Blog &nbsp; Excerpt from a Review of Jane-in-the-Box posted August 21, 2008 on The Bront\u00eb Blog by M. Another collection of poems can be described as poetical retellings of different given episodes of Jane Eyre, with many references extracted from the contemporary American cultural context (from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-reviews-interviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}