Turn of the Screw

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There's no thread on this little potboiler what made Lovecraft and yours truly pop boners aplenty! God, I love this book. Some of the only scary children in the world of horror, and about 800 levels of "is this real?". Apparently there was no contemporaneous questioning of whether the ghosts were real or not.

Praise, debate, conjecture ahoy! I tip my hat to you Herr James!

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

have you seen the opera? benjamin britten - absolutely amazing and verrry creepy, especially with the right staging!

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, I thought the opra was hilarious, esp. the scene where they're all throwing fruit at each other.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

i havent read this since h.s. & usually love james but i remember this as really tiring & cold - wasnt he influenced by freuds bullshit case studies?? 'our sophocles' my ass

― ---++-++--, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Would make sense, Frued-style "hysteria" in the woman making her all guano loco. Little Miles just needed to induce "paroxysms" in her.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

haha - 'turn of the screw' indeed!!

― -++-+--+, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

can we talk about daisy miller as proto-nabokov??

― -++-+-+, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Anybody else watching this? Apparently so!

http://glyndebourne.com/livestreaming

― Ban or Astro-Ban? (Ówen P.), Sunday, 21 August 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

oh swag!

finally read this earlier this year, in conjunction with Shoshana Feldman's lengthy essay on it, about which I remember very little except that it had exactly the right amount of Lacan

― Debarge and in charge (bernard snowy), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

i.e. as little as possible?

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

I've read every James novel except one, reread most of the major ones several times, but I'm no fan of this nouvelle.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

MAN I hope some of you saw the production at Glyndebourne today, it was just _____.

― Ban or Astro-Ban? (Ówen P.), Monday, 22 August 2011 04:54 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

new stage version in Brooklyn in December

https://www.bam.org/theater/2018/strange-window

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:26 (seven years ago)

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