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*"*/Touché/, Arnie! I've been using the expression "shadow story" under
the illusion that I knew what you meant. "
Well, I never made it really clear before, and it is a new concept to
wrap one's brain around, so I am glad my meaning is now clear----but I
found Jansy's reactions very interesting nonetheless.
" I also cannot understand your words that the "Freudian sexual
experience of Emma was only a piece of the whole," ..."one small 'tile'
in the very complex 'mosaic' of the full shadow story of Emma,
involving
_all_ the major characters," so it'll be wise of me to stop engaging in
even wider tesselations. "
I am glad to clarify that, too. I meant that the shadow story of _Emma_
is only partly about Emma's unconscious experience, but it is mostly
about the experience, motivations, and unnarrated actions of all the
other major characters. The shadow story is the story of the events in
the novel, but told from the point of view of Jane Fairfax, who is the
shadow heroine of the novel. I have given talks on the topic of Jane
Fairfax's secret predicament at Oxford and Chawton Cottage, and I have
spoken about it in NYC last May, and will be repeating that talk at a
half dozen venues in the US, including L.A. and S.F. (in California),
Ft. Lauderdale and Gainesville (in Florida), and Portland (in
Oregon).--I will post info about the relevant dates at my blog as the
dates approach.
"In his lecture on Charles Dickens Nabokov refers to an example of
"oblique description of speech...sometimes used to speed up or to
concentrate a mood...Esther is persuading secretly married Ada to go
with her to visit Richard..." which, in turn, reminds me of
the paragraph in which Nabokov introduces Jane Austen's
introductions...
Would Jane Austen's insertion in "Ada," with that particular example,
be
just a coincidence? "
I can't follow all those twists and turns. Is that a question as to
whether Nabokov writing about Austen's writing in a way that resonates
to something he wrote in Ada could be just a coincidence? Perhaps if
there were quotations of the respective excerpts, we might be able to
make that judgment.
Cheers, ARNIE
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