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Analyzing the Gaps and Silences of a Text

Literature as a Historical and Social Response to Classism

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ID16887536
AuthorsDavi Silva Gonçalves (0000-0001-8825-2859, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue15
Pages1-17
Publication date2016-06-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Scripta Alumni (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1984-6614 • E-ISSN: 1984-6614
DOI10.18304/1984-6614/scripta.alumni.n15p1-17
OpenAlexW2508410259
LanguageEN
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Within this article I propose an analysis of specific utterances of The turn of the screw’s (JAMES, 1898) governess; my purpose is to promote this bridge between the fictional environment concocted by James and the social, political, and economic one which go way beyond the literary scope. Learning about the death of the former governess, readers also learn about the social configuration and stratification of the house as a whole. It seems, thus, that at every major moment for the unpacking of the novella, the narrator asks readers to reflect upon the issue of classism (MARX, 1845; 1848), ubiquitous in the story; this might occur perchance, but it is also perchance that literature is constructed. DOI: 10.18304/1984-6614/scripta.alumni.n15p1-17

Art · Literature · Novella · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science) · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Urban Planning and Governance

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