Chapter Seven of Shosana Felman's Writing and Madness performs a Lacanian reading of this work, refuting the essay on "The Ambiguity" of its author by Edmund Wilson. In its introduction, the Griffins question whether Douglas's love for its central narrator causes his reticence to relate the story. A key moment involves Luke's failure to find the letter written to the unseen uncle, though it's later revealed to Mrs. Grose that the letter is blank.
Chapter Seven of Shosana Felman's Writing and Madness performs a Lacanian reading of this work, refuting the essay on "The Ambiguity" of its author by Edmund Wilson. In its introduction, the Griffins question whether Douglas's love for its central narrator causes his reticence to relate the story. A key moment involves Luke's failure to find the letter written to the unseen uncle, though it's later revealed to Mrs. Grose that the letter is blank. Taking place at Bly, where the narrator first sees her predecessor upon the nearby lake and her lover standing upon a tower, for 10 points, name this novella where Miles dies in his governess's arms during the final approach of Peter Quint, by Henry James.
Chapter Seven of Shosana Felman's Writing and Madness performs a Lacanian reading of this work, refuting the essay on "The Ambiguity" of its author by Edmund Wilson.
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