This article seeks to argue that The Turn of the Screw isa sinister parody of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and of the female quixotic Bildungsroman. To sustain this claim, I will show that both Catherine and the governess are two burlesque and quixotic heroines who are deeply influenced by their extravagant fancies and their readings of romance. ...
The essay is a reflection on the possibility of diverse interpretations of both works — The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and the stage work of the same title composed by Benjamin Britten. The text is divided into six parts, the introduction is placed first. The author forms the thesis that depending on external conditions, the experiences of th...
Using adaptation and queer theory, this essay discusses and analyzes how Henry James’ horror novella The Turn of the Screw has been adapted into a streaming show for Netflix. By showing how The Haunting of Bly Manor removes some of the ambiguity of the original text, this essay claims that the show does not fall victim to the “bury your gays” trope...
Hace unos días, I watched “The Turn of the Screw.” Esa famosa versión I’d fetichized for years. Décadas, actually. Years ago mi estudiante Sasha Fariña (creo recordar que she was a CMC science student, enrolled in my Latin American poetry seminar) fisgó en el internido y teorizó que it had actually been a TV special. Me acuerdo que that didn’t soun...
The novels written by Henry James in the late 1890’s, immediately following his failed five-year stint as a London playwright, are too often written off by critics as a period in which, with a few exceptions, the author was still searching for the right formula that would allow him to write his ‘masterpieces’ of the coming “Major Phase” (The Ambass...
This paper focus on the game of transmission and retelling inherent in Henry James's novella 'The Turn of the Screw' and focuses on the 16 film adaptations that have been made since the 1950s. James wrote the tale as an experiment in form--the perfect hybrid of drama and the novel and an "amusette to catch those not easily caught", as he said. The ...
At first view, it may seem somewhat arbitrary to point to a single five-year period in the career of Henry James as an ‘experimental period’, for the author is notorious for his life-long efforts to advance the late nineteenth-century novel through carefully staged (and well-documented) experiments in style and form. As early as 1878, James had adm...
Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is defined by its ambivalence, as well by the coalescence of apparently contradictory realities. It is, to all extents, an ambiguous text, which has generated a deeply controversial critical debate over the decades. The aim of this article is to reappraise James’s novella from the paradigm of the ‘fantasti...
The purpose of this essay is to explore how different means are used to create indeterminate meaning in Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw. It suggests that the indeterminacy creates gaps in the text which the reader is required to fill in during the reading process, and that this indeterminacy is achieved chiefly through the use of an unr...
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