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The Fantastic Modernist - Coggle Diagram
The Fantastic Modernist
Hesitation, Ambivalence, Uncertainty
Todorov
fantastic
occupies the time of uncertainty
reader
horrified by ghost of the tale
origginates fear in the mind
lingering spirits of the former servants
neurotic delusion
scared by possibility
suspicion
ghost are hallucination
ghost are part of evil
the turn of the screw
narrative device
evoke
reader's feelings
uncertainty and hesitation
category of the fantastic in literature
text
ambiguous enough
propose fear
ghost tale
constant ambiguity
impossible to fully know
gothic mansion
doubt and uncertainty
issue of genre
Serpell
reality or unreality
ontological terms
binary opposition
binary opposition
existence and non-existence
epistemological term
opposition
perception and paranoia
hermeneutical terms
opposition
meaning and non-meaning
Ambiguity as Structure
reality
epistemological uncertainity
the turn of the screw
complexities
familiar gothic structure
framed narratives
reader
introduced
unnamed narrator
Douglas
impression
story both
narrated and later received
audience and readers
personal interpretation
narrators' understanding of story
reader's understanding
Sujectivity, Perception, and Uncertainty Principle
hesitation
essential theme
james
focus
governess's distorted perception
perception
functions as screen
Ambiguity as Defiance
governess
vision of herself
head to foot
identity dissociation
fictitious narrative identity
heroine
own autobiographical text
late nineteenth century
gothic fiction
disturbing concept
unstable selves
moral codes of Victorian society
Introduction
the turn of the screw
intense
often controversial critical
appariotionist
governess is truly haunted
non-apparitionist
psychological reading
claimed
ghostly apparities
delusion
paranoid
deranged narrator
postmodern approach
opposed apparitions/ non-apparitionist