The Turn of the Screw

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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Turn of the Screw by : Sigrid Renaux

Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Sigrid Renaux and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest critical challenges of the 20th century, from its publication in 1898 up to our own time, The Turn of the Screw continues to fascinate readers and scholars alike, by its seemingly inexhaustible semantic richness. This study presents a re-evaluation of the ambiguities and doubts which permeate Henry James's tale, through a process of semiotic transcodification. By way of C.S. Peirce's and D. Pignatari's theories of the sign, it captures and interprets the iconic-symbolic elements interwoven in the narrative, thus offering astonishing new insights into the question of the reality / unreality of the apparitions, the coexistence or not of good and evil in the children, and the credibility of the governess / narrator, among other aspects. By integrating all of them into a semantic structure, it demonstrates how the interpretation of the tale gyrates around the fusion of contradictions, as the turn of the screw synthetizes universal duality / complementarity.

The Poetics of Biblical Narrative

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253114047
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Biblical Narrative by : Meir Sternberg

Download or read book The Poetics of Biblical Narrative written by Meir Sternberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-22 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meir Sternberg’s classic study is “an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work.” (Adele Berlin, Prooftexts) In “a book to read and then reread” (Modern Language Review), Meir Sternberg “has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts.” (Journal of the American Academy of Religion). The result is a “a brilliant work” (Choice) distinguished “both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.” (Theological Studies). The Poetics of Biblical Narrative shows, in Adele Berlin’s words, “more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics.”

Von Chaucer bis Pinter

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Publisher : Athenaum
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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Book Synopsis Von Chaucer bis Pinter by : Bernhard Fabian

Download or read book Von Chaucer bis Pinter written by Bernhard Fabian and published by Athenaum. This book was released on 1980 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766165
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw by : Thomas Mabry Cranfill

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 2014-07-29 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 Nose (Annotated with Biography)

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Publisher : Golgotha Press
ISBN 13 : 1610427424
Total Pages : 49 pages
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Book Synopsis The Nose (Annotated with Biography) by : Nikolai Gogol

Download or read book The Nose (Annotated with Biography) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835 and 1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation.