Bianca's age?

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 2:15 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Duffy Duyfhuizen argues - quite convincingly -
> as much in his '91 PMC essay:

Yes, that was very interesting. I sort of took this apparent age  
discrepancy as possibly a wry comment on the practice in Hollywood of  
actresses portraying characters considerably younger than themselves.

The record was set by Norma Shearer when she played Juliet (13?) at  
the age of 36.

By the way, Shirley Temple participated in this kind of "deception"   
but in reverse. In her early years she was advertised as being a year  
younger than she actually was.




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> "However, if we dislocate our reading and
> consider Bianca through cross-mapping with Ilse,
> her shadow sister, we discover that she was most
> likely born in 1929 and is much closer to 16 or
> 17 than she is to '11 or 12'."
>
> In a footnote to this sentence he continues:
> "Newman is the only reader I have come across
> that comes close to dating _Alpdrucken_ (during
> the filming of which Bianca was conceived) as
> 16 years before the text's present time (107),
> and Weisenburger dates Pokler's recollection
> of Ilse's conception as 'ranging back over
> sixteen years, its analepsis beginning in the
> late twenties, in Berlin, where the German
> rocket program began as an apparently innocent
> club, the Society for Space Travel' (194)."
>
>
> Bernard Duyfhuizen, "'A Suspension Forever at
> the Hinge of Doubt': The Reader-Trap of Bianca
> in _Gravity's Rainbow_" Postmoden Culture,
> Volume 2, Number 1 (September, 1991)
>
>
> Best,
> Heikki
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
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>> Huh?
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>> best
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>>> SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
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>>> JIM KNIPFEL
>>> NEWS & COLUMNS
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>>> [...]
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>>> Without going into all the details, let's just say
>>> Bianca is first described as "a knockout, alright, 11
>>> or 12, dark and lovely?" She is, in fact, roughly 16,
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>>> [...]
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>>> http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/knipfel.cfm
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