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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2008-04-17
ISBN 10	: 9780192669216
Pages	: 337 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (692 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw

Author	: Thomas Mabry Cranfill
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2014-05-29
ISBN 10	: 9780292766150
Pages	: 206 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (661 users)

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Download or read book An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw written by Thomas Mabry Cranfill and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambiguous intent of Henry James’s horror story The Turn of the Screw has fascinated and divided its readers since its publication in 1898. The division arises between the apparitionists and the nonapparitionists in interpretation of the plot and the characters. Thomas Mabry Cranfill and Robert Lanier Clark, Jr., have here taken up the argument and made an interpretation of their own. The authors carefully considered the mountainous critical comment, studied James’s statements regarding his intent, and minutely scrutinized the story itself. After all this probing of opinions and following of clues and observing of human beings in action, they have come out strongly on the side of the nonapparitionists. The authors base their conclusion on analyses of character, centrally that of the governess, whom they consider the protagonist of the fearsome drama, but peripherally those of Mrs. Grose, the children, the uncle in Harley Street, and even the deceased Miss Jessel and Peter Quint. Relentlessly they relate every episode, action, and speech to the character of the governess and her relationships with those around her at Bly, picturing her as a psychological “case” whose abnormal mental state brings to those around her the inescapable misery they all suffer. The authors’ analysis unfolds as interestingly in terms of character and motive as if the reader did not already know what happens in James’s much-read story. It moves, moreover, with something of the same suspense as James’s horror tale, although the tension is intellectual rather than emotional. Each additional disclosure of evidence, the resolution of each situation, and the clarification of every puzzling ambiguity builds the analysis step-by-inevitable-step to its inescapable conclusion. The style of the analysis is graceful, urbane, and witty. The introduction gives an excellent appraisal of literary comment on James’s story and an illuminating summary of the literary “war” over the meaning of it; the bibliography provides an impressive list of books and articles on this subject, annotated to indicate in what particular ways each makes a contribution to the controversy.

The Turn of the Screw

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date	: 2021-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9788726606317
Pages	: 63 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (63 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Henry James and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young governess. A remote house. Two silent children. When less than benevolent ghosts are added into this already precarious mixture - chaos ensues. A gothic novella that explores fear, innocence, and vulnerability, ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is a masterful tragedy bound to entice all fans of the supernatural. Considered Henry James’ paranormal legacy, it was made into the classic chiller "The Innocents" (1961), and the modern adaptation "The Others" (2001) starring Nicole Kidman. Regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Henry James (1843-1916) was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the United States, but lived and worked in Europe. Mainly occupied with portraying the cultural clash between the Old World and the New World, he explored these themes in his most notable novels, ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ and ‘The Wings of the Dove’. His gripping explorations are unmissable for fans of Edith Wharton, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad.

The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Modern Library
Release Date	: 2012-08-22
ISBN 10	: 9780307824097
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (24 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw & In the Cage written by Henry James and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark. In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date	: 2008-04-17
ISBN 10	: 9780199536177
Pages	: 337 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (361 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

Level 3: Turn of the Screw

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Pearson UK
Release Date	: 2019
ISBN 10	: 9781292305707
Pages	: 60 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book Level 3: Turn of the Screw written by Henry James and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales Out of School

Author	: Jo Keroes
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 0809322382
Pages	: 182 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Tales Out of School written by Jo Keroes and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo Keroes's scope is wide: she examines the teacher as represented in fiction and film in works ranging from the twelfth-century letters of Abelard and Heloise to contemporary films such as Dangerous Minds and Educating Rita. And from the twelfth through the twentieth century, Keroes shows, the teaching encounter is essentially erotic. Tracing the roots of eros from cultural as well as psychological perspectives, Keroes defines erotic in terms broader than the merely sexual. She analyzes ways in which teachers serve as convenient figures on whom to map conflicts about gender, power, and desire. To show how portrayals of men and women differ, she examines pairs of texts, using a film or a novel with a woman protagonist (Up the Down Staircase, for example) as counterpoint to one featuring a male teacher (Blackboard Jungle) or The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie balanced against Dead Poets Society. The portrayals of teachers, like all images a culture presents of itself, reveal much about our private and social selves. Keroes points out authentic accounts of authoritative women teachers who are admired and respected by colleagues and students alike. Real teachers differ from the stereotypes we see in fiction and film, however. Male teachers are often portrayed as heroes in film and fallibly human in fiction, whereas women in either genre are likely to be monstrous or muddled and are virtually never women of color. Among other things, Keroes demonstrates, the tension between reality and representation reveals society's ambivalence about power in the hands of women.

Women Times Three

Author	: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher	: Popular Press
Release Date	: 1995
ISBN 10	: 0879726822
Pages	: 180 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (22 users)

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Download or read book Women Times Three written by Kathleen Gregory Klein and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays' authors are not only widely published scholar-critics of mystery/detective fiction but also dedicated fans of the genre. Familiar with the full scope of mystery fiction, they bring insight and enthusiasm to their writing.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Bantam Classics
Release Date	: 2008-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9780553905748
Pages	: 560 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction written by Henry James and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw” to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,” the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.

Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical

Author	: Marcia Muelder Eaton
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2001-01-04
ISBN 10	: 9780195349887
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (498 users)

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Download or read book Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical written by Marcia Muelder Eaton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Muelder Eaton introduces this groundbreaking work, in which a bold new concept of merit where being good and looking good are integrated into one.

The Turn of the Screw

Author	: Diana Stewart
Publisher	: Heinemann/Raintree
Release Date	: 1981
ISBN 10	: 0817216723
Pages	: 52 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Diana Stewart and published by Heinemann/Raintree. This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

Author	: Rachael Durkin
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2022-05-27
ISBN 10	: 9781000563351
Pages	: 462 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (633 users)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature written by Rachael Durkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses—the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature—and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.

Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935

Author	: Charles Demuth
Publisher	: Temple University Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 1566397812
Pages	: 222 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (12 users)

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Download or read book Letters of Charles Demuth, American Artist, 1883-1935 written by Charles Demuth and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Demuth is widely recognized as one of the most significant American modernists. His precisionist cityscapes, exquisite flowers, and free-wheeling watercolors of vaudeville performers, homosexual bathhouses, and cabaret scenes hang in many of the country's most prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Demuth's Lancaster, Pennsylvania, family residence, now home of the Demuth Foundation. At a time when many American artists remained tied to Europe, Demuth "Americanized" European modernism. This collection of 155 of his letters offers valuable views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York, and Paris. Besides offering information on Demuth's own works, the letters also shed light on the output of his contemporaries, as well as references to their trips, liaisons, and idiosyncrasies. Demuth numbered among his correspondents some of the most famous artists and writers of his time, inluding Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, and William Carlos Williams. In his travels in the United States and abroad, he encountered many other talented contemporaries: Peggy Bacon, Muriel Draper, Marcel Duchamp, the Stettheimer sisters, artists and writers, patrons, and gallery owners. Whether he is offering to pick up a copy of Joyce'sUlyssesfor Eugene O'Neill or trying to convince Georgia O'Keeffe to decorate his music room ("just allow that red and yellow 'canna' one to spread until it fills the room"), Demuth is always in the thick of art and literary life. Flamboyant in attire but descreet in his homosexuality, Demuth also reveals in his letters the life of a talented homosexual in the teens and twenties. With his best friends Robert Locher and Marsden Hartley, he circulated through the art colonies of Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and Paris, meeting everyone. The book also contains reprints of some short appraisals of Demuth and his work that were published during his lifetime, long out of print, including pieces by A. E. Gallatin, Angela E. Hagen, Marsden Hartley, Helen Henderson, Henry McBride, Carl Van Vechten, Rita Wells, and Willard Huntington Wright. Author note:Bruce Kellneris Emeritus Professor of English, Millersville University, and a member of the Demuth Foundation Board of Directors. He is the author or editor of 10 other books.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Signet Classics
Release Date	: 1980
ISBN 10	: 0451524721
Pages	: 460 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (21 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels written by Henry James and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1980 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers pre-twentieth century novels relevant to the National Curriculum and GCSE syllabuses, in an unabridged format, this work includes support material on every page and has a layout that encourages pupils of all abilities. Their understanding is strengthened by completing the reinforcement exercises and activities included.

The Collier's Weekly Version of the Turn of the Screw

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2010-01
ISBN 10	: 9781603810180
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book The Collier's Weekly Version of the Turn of the Screw written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and I afterward wondered that my employer had not told me more of her." For the first time since 1898, readers can experience Henry James's eerie The Turn of the Screw the way his original readers did, as a twelve-part weekly serial. The Coffeetown Press edition showcases the novel as it first appeared, complete with provocative illustrations by John La Farge and Eric Pape, in Collier's Weekly. This unique edition, with an analytical introduction by Peter G. Beidler, will of course be valuable to scholars. It will be particularly useful, however, for undergraduate classroom use. It allows readers to experience first-hand the suspense generated by the week-by-week grouping of chapters. It also lets them read the young governess's story of her dangerous encounter with prowling spirits as it first appeared, before James made the 500-odd changes in wording he introduced later. After reading Beidler's detailed appendix analyzing all of James's revisions, readers will see that in many ways this earliest version of The Turn of the Screw was James's best.

LIFE

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1959-10-19
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 178 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-10-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

The Turn of the Screw

Author	: Henry James
Publisher	: Bedford/St. Martin's
Release Date	: 2009-12-29
ISBN 10	: 0312597061
Pages	: 432 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Henry James and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James’s classic 1898 short novel, along with documents that place the work in historical context and critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from several contemporary critical perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In this third edition, a new section details in unique depth the revisions James made from the serialized Colliers Weekly edition to the New York Edition. New documents and illustrations enhance the historical contexts section, and new psychoanalytic essay with a Lacanian perspective appears in the section of contemporary criticism.