The role of the governess in "The turn of the screw"
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1130
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.327
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.327
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Valiño Siota, RaúlDate
2010Abstract
For more than a hundred years, the role of the governess in The Turn of the Screw has been the centre of an enormous controversy among literary critics. In their approach to this work, critics have come up with a broad range of different interpretations, and, among them, two criticisms stand out: the so-called apparitionists and non-apparitionists, which from the very beginning have excluded each other, as their names contribute to suggest. The present paper reviews those interpretations, based on their most representative critics and their excerpts from the book in order to contribute to an understanding between these two possible readings. Durante más de un siglo, la crítica que ha abordado la novela The Turn of the Screw ha tratado de analizar y explicar los sucesos en ella relatados, dando como resultado un amplio abanico de interpretaciones. Entre estas destacan las interpretaciones denominadas aparicionistas y no aparicionistas,que desde sus inicios, y como sus propios nombres da...
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Turn of the Screw
Governess
Apparitionist
Non-apparitionists
Bildungsroman
Henry James
Vuelta de Tuerca
Institutriz
Aparicionistas
No aparicionistas