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Yes, well done. But not nearly the subtlety possible and experiencable in the written words. mike On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gordon Wells <gwells@ucsc.edu> wrote: > PBS recently showed a dramatization of several of Gaskell's novels. They > captured the period and way of live very well. > http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=3048709 > > Gordon Wells <gwells@ucsc.edu> http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/<http://people.ucsc.edu/%7Egwells/> > Department of Education > University of California, Santa Cruz. > > > > > > On Nov 25, 2010, at 8:32 AM, mike cole wrote: > > Some time back Larry and others were focused on primal sociality in highty > coordinated > interactions. Even longer ago, David Kel suggested that we read Elizabeth > Gaskell. Wow, > was he ever right! Amazing. > > I recently read a scene set about, say, 1840's rural England. Gaskell > depicts poor folks maintaining > a traditional, ostensibly prosperous, life world in the face of the coming > pressures of industrialization. In this scene, > a woman is having a party. As befits her situation, at the high point of > the > festivities she is > seated comfortably in a special spot of honor and attention, but in small > ways, the author > has told us about all the hard work she has done to make this > accomplishment > "pass" as > an expression of her genteel accomplishments in life. The author ends the > description of this > event by writing that the hostess "who now sat in state, pretending not to > know what cakes were > sent up, though she knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she > knew that we > knew, she had been busy all morning making tea-bread and sponge-cake." > > There, I think we have a beautiful description of culturally mediated, > reflexive, community and > the degree of intertwining that deep reflexivity seems to promote. The > Gaskell novels I have read > all excel at providing an almost micro-ethnographic sense of the richness > of > feeling/experience > within small, mostly face to face, English, communities. > And consistent with the picture that Larry is seeking to fill out. > > mike > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca