![]() ![]() Even when she has a conversation, it is more of a monologue, as neither the The governess's rambling thoughts go on for many pages at times without a singleīreak for conversation. Thirty years and its acid-based pages were deeply yellowed with age and hard to read - which seemed toīefit the tenor of the text itself which seemed colored from another age, dense with archaic language forms,Īnd difficult to read. The copy had been on my library shelf for It isĪ short novel, only 155 pages in the mass paperback copy I read. How does Henry James achieve this ambiguity? I wondered and that led me to read the book. Visions at all in fact, no one other than the governess ever actually sees the ghosts." Weinstein says, "In one view of the story, the children are not in cahoots with the ghosts and have no Was to change the classical interpretation of this story from a ghost story to a story of a neurotic governess. He pointed to an innovative interpretation of this storyīy Edmund Wilson in his 1934 essay titled, "The Ambiguity of Henry James." What Wilson did, in effect, ![]() Arnold Weinstein of Brown University, in his course Classics of American Literature, devotedĪ couple of lectures to this story by Henry James. Reminder of New Reviews & New DIGESTWORLD Issues - CLICK Like Us? Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Pub'd by Scholastic Book Services/NY in 1968 The Turn of the Screw - A Story by Henry James, A Review by Bobby Matherne Site Map: MAIN / A Reader's Journal, Vol. ![]()
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