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T1 The fantastic modernist: or Henry James's "The turn of the screw", revisited
A1 Gualberto Valverde, Rebeca
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB 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 ‘fantastic’ as formulated by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970, so as to integrate traditionally opposed viewpoints. For the characteristics of the fantastic that Todorov identifies are usually understood as cognate with the more commons traits of gothic fiction; yet this article argues that the fantastic elements that Todorov ascribes to The Turn of the Screw are in fact simultaneously gothic and modernist, and thus allow for establishing a continuum of meaning that might actually assimilate critical approaches that have conventionally been deemed divergent and irreconcilable.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17232
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17232
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.97-114
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-nov-2024