Title: The Turn of the Screw
Title Record # 84881
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Date: 1971-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Date: 1971-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: A non-speculative story using Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" as inspiration and parallel. Figuratively speaking, each of the two men in this story feels as if he is haunted by the other.
First published in the Iowa Review 2.2 (1971).
Synopsis: A young man, unhappily tending to his sick uncle at a seaside resort, begins receiving anonymous letters from someone who is watching him; the story is told in parallel narations from the points of view of the watcher (an older man) and the watched.
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Postmodern American Fiction | 1997-09-00 | ed. Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy | W. W. Norton & Company | 0-393-31698-X | $24.95?$: US dollar |
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anth | Roger Brown |