An Exploration of the Suspense Art in The Turn of the Screw
Henry James is a giant of modern English and American literature,and a realistic novelist in the 19th century who pioneered psychoanalytic fiction.One of his masterpieces,"The Turn of the Screw"is a Goth-ic novel with a series of suspense.The whole novel is narrated from the subjective perspective of a young gov-erness,with a series of suspense and unique Gothic narrative art.Through the textual close reading of"The Turn of the Screw"and taking Genette's narratology as the theoretical basis,the art of suspense in the novel can be studied in terms of anachronies,focalizations,and frequency to explore the theoretical basis behind the suspense laying and to reveal the aesthetic art of the Gothic novel.
The Turn of the ScrewGenette's narratologysuspense art
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