{"id":3274,"date":"2024-08-03T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T22:42:12","slug":"review-the-turn-of-the-screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Turn of the Screw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked this up just poking around the library&#8217;s virtual shelves.  I recognized the title and figured I&#8217;d catch up with a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a gothic ghost story and I&#8217;ve heard enough ghost stories to see the foundations here.  And I know that James is often read more in subtext than in text.  But for all the discursive text here I missed a lot of the context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do think it&#8217;s very hard to be eerie on the page.  Especially so when you&#8217;re talking to someone across a century and ten levels of class.  And even with all that gap, I did feel the slow ratchet of tension rising.  But overall it felt like homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up just poking around the library&#8217;s virtual shelves. I recognized the title and figured I&#8217;d catch up with a classic. It&#8217;s a gothic ghost story and I&#8217;ve heard enough ghost stories to see the foundations here. And I know that James is often read more in subtext than in text. But for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}