Modernist Themes and Tropes in 'The Turn of the Screw" download

Taboo Sexuality

Literary Allusion and Intertextuality

Urban Alienation

Loss and Despair

The Turn of the Screw

Narrative Ambiguity and Levels of Narration

1898

published before the turn of the 20th Century

Henry James

Peak of Modernism

Jessel and Quint

explore sexuality

modernist

previously unacceptable in society

Quint too "free" with everyone, especially the children

upheaval

turn of the 20th century

socio political change

Sigmund Freud semninal psychology theories

kids lost parents

loss of guidance and contact in employees

loss of innocence

troubled relationships

modernist

narrator is revealed as untrustworthy and highly subjective

multiple level of narration

Hypertext

Hypotext

origin of a thought

every traceable reference subsequent use of idea across

Interior Psychological world of the governess

figment of imagination

ambiguos

sinister events, ghosts

Prologue

incomplete

multiple viewpoints

constructedness of governess's story

common in modernist text

The Turn of the Screw

miles and flora entrusted to their uncles keeping

care entirely to governess

not to be bothered in city

underlying disconnect between people

changing social relations

industrialization

mass movement

rural and urban

modernist

Intetextuality

ways in which texts draw on

feature of modenrism

mentions Jane Eyre

Udolpho

mysteries

supernatural

gloomy castle

familiar supernatural events

rational explanation to ghosts