| Titre | Le Tour d'écrou ou l'illusion tragique | |
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| Auteur | Agnès Derail-Imbert | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 82, octobre 1999 La Tragédie : variations américaines. | |
| Page | 13 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Confronting The Turn of the Screw with its Preface, this study proposes to examine how James recasts the question of the tragic in modern fantastic fiction. In The Turn of the Screw, the tragic plot, enacted by the ghosts, and artificial harnessed to what otherwise would be a mere romantic fantasy, confers to the story the aura of a prestigious genre while safely securing for the governess her position as narrator. Retracing the genealogy of the tale, the Preface suggests how «pure romance» alone, forging the figures of the ghosts, can recapture as a piece of fiction the departed spirit of the tragic. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1999_num_82_1_1786 |
