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Critics Turn of the Screw
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- 1Droch review in life magazine 1898'seldom does he make a direct assertion, but qualifies and negatives and double negative, then throws in a handful of adverbs until the image floats away upon a verbal smoke'
- 2review from the New York Times'The very breath of hell seems to pervade some of its chapters'
- 3Leon EdelHenry James foremost critic
- 4Jameswants to "catch out" the reader
"shameless potboiler"
"fairy tale" "amusette", away from realism
refuses to give closure or reveal the nature of the ghosts - Protomodernist, away from aristotelian beginning middle and end - 5Schreronot ambiguous, ghost are real
their servant status and sordid sexuality + corruption of the children reflects current anxiety
The governess is RELIABLE
The Master is IRRESPONSIBLE - 6CostelloGoverness is RELIABLE
the reader can tell this by the clear structure of each account of the ghostly encounters: FORETELLING - INCIDENT - PLAN - RESPONSE - 7TuvesonThe governess is reliable, the story comes from James connection to the psychic society (brother)
the Governess is an UNKNOWING MEDIUM
Quint's spirit uses her to kill miles - 8WilliamsGoverness NOT reliable
believes critics thus far take the story to seriously, not verisimilitude.
FAIRYTALE
can tell this from the narrative form and group listening in prologue - 9WilsonGoverness is NOT reliable
she suffers from "psychosexual delusion"
Freudian slips everywhere - textual proof
Lacuna - Gap in the text/narrative ambiguity - 10BontlyGoverness is NOT reliable
Fruedian, she projects sexuality onto ghosts, they alone are A-sexual
wants to destroy/doesn't understand the innocence of the children
the reader finds in the ghosts demons that haunt them personally - 11Jonescannot be sure even of Douglas, too ambiguous to interpret.
Governess is "Inexperienced, bewildered, frightened" but HONEST - just saying what she sees - 12Lyndenburgguilty of the "sin of pride"
the children are
“mere pawns which she must protect and can use, but for which she has no real concern” - 13CargillFreudian reading, sites James as a "Freudian pioneer"
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