Deja Vu in The Turn of the Screw

James

reader

look backwards

story

1840s

isolated heroine

secret

sense of recognition

set in motion

recognition

defamiliarised

deja vu

paradigmatic

hypnotic sort of way

assumption of romantic pretext

fables of the supernatural

thematisation off reading

visualisation

governess

Pamela

character into being

archetypal narratives

manuscript

lost and retrieved

romantic archetype

framed

pseudo-feminine fiction

popular fantasies

of the governess

old sentimental theme

virtue in distress

two opposites into one

epistolary

thematised

vacuity

construes children

Shakespearians

astronomers

navigators

use of metaphoric

pseudo

heroic languge

contradiction

self-effacement

egoistic heroism

self-reflexivity

feminine ghost

writing double

frustration of plot

metonymic anxiety

fading of subject

purpose

reader imagine

connect to unnameable

fading impression

sweet sadness

elliptical way

repeated fairy-tale