The Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew: Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333684801 / Miękka / 1998 / 252 str.

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Opis

After one hundred years, critical production on The Turn of the Screw shows no sign of abating. A long-standing controversy over the 'reality' or otherwise of the ghosts has given way to a general recognition of textual ambiguity, and recent developments in criticism, including Feminist, Materialist and Poststructuralist readings, have now brought out fundamental underlying issues of gender, class and sexuality. Also included in this volume are essays on What Maisie Knew; one of James's most lucid, yet aesthetically and morally complicated novels.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; N.Cornwell and M. Malone.- PART I: THE TURN OF THE SCREW.- The Trap of the Imagination: The Gothic Tradition, Fiction and The Turn of the Screw; R.Schleifer.- The Scene of Writing: Purloined Letters; S.Felman.- The Use and Abuse of Uncertainty in The Turn of the Screw; J.C.Rowe.- Repetition and Subversion in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw; J.H.Pearson.- Blanks in The Turn of the Screw; T.J.Lustig.- Getting Fixed: Feminine Identity and Scopic Crisis in The Turn of the Screw; B.Newman.- Gender, History and Modernism in The Turn of the Screw; M.DeKoven.- 'The Hideous Obscure': The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde; R.Knowles.- PART II: WHAT MAISIE KNEW.- Unsquaring the Squared Route of What Maisie Knew; B.Eckstein.- Undoing the Oedipal Family in What Maisie Knew; J.Rivkin.- What Maisie Knew and the Improper Third Person; S.Teahan.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

NEIL CORNWELL is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. His publications include The Literary Fantastic and James Joyce and the Russians.

MAGGIE MALONE is an independent scholar who has published articles on Jane Austen and on Shakespeare.