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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The Turn of the Screw"”.
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To Be Loved Is To Be Seen: Gazing as a Form of Interpretation in the Turn of the Screw
<p>The heated discourse that would follow Henry James’s novella “The Turn of the Screw” centered on whether the ghosts were real or not. With Shoshana Felman’s groundbreaking article “Turning the Screw of Interpretation” a new-found focus on the ambiguities, as opposed to finding a singular, …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
<p>This essay focuses on the prevalent fears of governesses in nineteenth-century Britain: poverty and social isolation, uselessness/redundancy, and a life of loneliness. Through looking at <em>Emma, Jane Eyre, </em>and <em>The Turn of the Screw, </em>novels which span the century (their …
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The spurn of the screw : Henry James's project of perversion management in three late supernatural tales
This study is a reading of three late supernatural tales by Henry James: "Owen Wingrave" (1892), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and "The Jolly Corner" (1908). The focus is on James's use of gothic conventions and rhetorical devices in an abiding project of perversion management, whereby unacceptable …
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“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy
<p>Psychoanalysis has a history of using literature to explain and augment its theories. What is more unusual is when a work of fiction finds itself structured around pre-existing psychoanalytical theory. Algernon Blackwood’s <em>Jimbo: A Fantasy</em> (1909) is a children’s novel reminiscent of a …
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The fantastic in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig and Joseph und seine Brüder
The thesis includes an introductory survey of recent relevant secondary literature and a coda dealing with the fantastic as a manifestation of Schiller’s ‘Spieltrieb’. Its main body, however, is comprised of three substantial chapters prosecuting two interlinked arguments: (1) that Der Tod in …
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The crucible of conversation: a study of Jamesean dialogue
<p>My own initial bemused reaction to the language of Henry James I can place in a classroom in 1960 where, with a class of fellow English majors—-old hands, all of us, at Faulkner and Joyce–I was, in the first chapters of The Wings of the Dove, as “awfully at sea” as Merton Densher was when he …
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
During the Modernist period, generally defined between the years 1890 and 1945, artists were attempting to break away from previous forms and styles. For example, writers like Henry James and Virginia Woolf sought to change the novel by exploring the consciousness of characters, while playing with …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
<p>My dissertation presents the comic and catastrophic results of James’s characters’ mania for verbal deception. By focusing on the humorous ingenuity of James’s fictional presentations, my study illuminates the literary artistry in each story. Traditional interpretations of James's short fiction …
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Henry James and the moral will
<p>Any act of literary criticism is presumptuous, but to contribute still another treatise on Henry James to the profuse analyses which already exist might seem sheer arrogance. I am not, however, so bold as to claim that the following study blazes with originality. It does offer, I think, more …