tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post3809321239662174678..comments2024-01-29T03:20:32.291-05:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: It must be borneArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-82187439143010012542009-11-01T06:16:29.855-05:002009-11-01T06:16:29.855-05:00Yes. ;)Yes. ;)Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-45353696349747762712009-11-01T06:09:31.388-05:002009-11-01T06:09:31.388-05:00Oh.Well, I suppose that could be a theory. Are you...Oh.Well, I suppose that could be a theory. Are you going to write a book about to it ??Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08851544655416154095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-38578564659355124992009-10-31T11:54:17.596-04:002009-10-31T11:54:17.596-04:00Zaineb,
In the shadow story of Emma (i.e., the pa...Zaineb,<br /><br />In the shadow story of Emma (i.e., the parallel fictional universe that lurks in the shadows of the text of the novel, placed there by Jane Austen), I claim that Mrs. Weston did not dance with Mr. Elton precisely because she was PRETENDING to be pregnant!Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-19418701551278099872009-10-31T11:45:07.807-04:002009-10-31T11:45:07.807-04:00But Mrs Weston did not dance at the ball with Mr E...But Mrs Weston did not dance at the ball with Mr Elton.Wasn't it because she was expecting a baby?Or was that merely due to the fact that it was wrong for married women to be dancing ?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08851544655416154095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-60086201683431316662009-09-07T09:00:30.746-04:002009-09-07T09:00:30.746-04:00Kitty, you are so melodramatic! ;)
I would give y...Kitty, you are so melodramatic! ;)<br /><br />I would give you three pieces of advice to start:<br /><br />1. Re-read all the novels regularly, and consciously try to read against the grain, meaning, try to imagine that the narrator is being very sly, and is hinting at motivations and actions of the characters other than the heroine which are not as they seem.<br /><br />2. Go to the JASNA website...<br /><br />http://www.jasna.org/<br /><br />click on "Publications" on the left side of the homepage, and then just start reading articles in Persuasions and Persuasions Online, many of which are readable online.<br /><br />3. Join JASNA and start attending AGM's--they are great fun, and you will both learn a lot at them, and also meet others who love Jane Austen. The October 2009 AGM is sold out (I missed out on it myself!), but the October 2010 AGM in Portland would be a good one for you to attend.<br /><br />Otherwise, if you have specific questions as you go along in your readings that have to do with subtext and shadows, just bring them to this blog, I will try to help!<br /><br />Thanks for your very kind words, ARNIEArnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-85402786927382158502009-09-07T08:56:59.398-04:002009-09-07T08:56:59.398-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-89116098945533531422009-09-07T08:47:47.311-04:002009-09-07T08:47:47.311-04:00Dear Arnie,
I've been lurking on the list for ...Dear Arnie,<br />I've been lurking on the list for a very long time, years in fact, and have never ventured forth a comment in any of the discussions because frankly I feel woefully inadequate to the task of contributing anything worthy in such esteemed company. Instead I have indulged in reading all the beautifully written and well thought out theories of it's various members meanwhile wishing I had a better understanding of what everyone was posting about. <br /><br />I'm not a scholar, obviously, I'm not even a college graduate, I'm just a 40 something full time working woman who decided seven years ago to improve my mind by extensive reading. It was my great fortune that I started with Jane Austen and eventually stumbled across the yahoo group a few years ago which today finally led me to your blog.<br /><br />I've been a great admirer of yours. When I have time to indulge in reading the list I've often marveled at your posts, how well thought out and presented your arguements were, how educational they were to me the novice reader, and how I ended up longing for more as in a Austen Sub Plot/Shadow Stories for Dummies version from you.<br /><br />It's rather daunting for me to presume to even comment on things that I know so little about but my courage has been properly raised to the challenge and I hope I'm not ridiculed to presume too much by begging of you to please give me advice on how to read my beloved Jane in such a manner as to increase my understanding of her and hopefully discover these shadow stories for myself. <br /><br />I don't know how many people in the yahoo group are like me, silent and unenlightened but longing to have the shroud removed from our eyes. But you would certainly have my unwavering devotion should you generously decide to take up the task of tutoring we (if my presumption of others is correct or me if I stand alone in my silent lurkerdom) who fear to give voice to our secret longings thereby exposing our ignorance to the list members and have been suffering in bliss-less silence.<br /><br />I fear I ask too much. Pray tell me it's not too much to ask, for one word from you will silence me forever on this topic and I will return to lurkerdom forever more.Kitty Scrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15253502223133660506noreply@blogger.com