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The Fantastic Modernist; or Henry James's The Turn of the Screw,…

- - - - governess is truly haunted by ghosts
      - terrifying ghost story = 19th century gothic narrative
    - - Paranoid, deranged narrator
      - psychological exploration of an unstable mind
    - - Gothic and modernist
      - integrated interpretation
      - reconciling opposed viewpoints
- - - - Unreliable narrator
      - viewpoint
    - - Exist simultaneously
    - - no one true meaning
      - subjective fiction
  - - - existence vs. non existence
      - reality and unreality
      - perception vs paranoia
    - - Governess 1st person narrator
      - Can't confirm or deny her story
- - - - Fear of death? She strangles him?
- - - - Deceitful
- - - - Ghosts dop. of children
      - Miss Jessel as governess
      - Gothic
      - Multiplicity of unstable selves
      - Subvert patriarchal mechanism of power