Session
Language and Culture
Description
The Thirteenth Tale is a contemporary Gothic novel written by Diane Setterfield, in which the author included various elements of the original 18 th century genre, building up her plot and basing her characters on different classic works that are scattered throughout the storyline. This essay deals with the intertextuality between the book and one of the classic narratives it references, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The main focus of the paper is on the phenomenon of twins that characterizes both fictions. For attentive readers both the analogy and dichotomy between the two novels are evident, though Setterfield’s story introduces a new third sibling, giving to her own chain of events a fresh, eerie extension and a complexity to the plot.
Keywords:
Setterfield, Thirteenth Tale, Intertextuality, James
Session Chair
Drita Xhemaili
Session Co-Chair
Manjola Brahaj Halili
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-96-7
First Page
8
Last Page
12
Location
Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
31-10-2020 3:15 PM
End Date
31-10-2020 4:45 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2020.248
Recommended Citation
Goodspeed, Silvishah Miftari, "Intertextuality and the Twin Phenomenon between The Thirteenth Tale and The Turn of the Screw" (2020). UBT International Conference. 284.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2020/all_events/284
Included in
Intertextuality and the Twin Phenomenon between The Thirteenth Tale and The Turn of the Screw
Lipjan, Kosovo
The Thirteenth Tale is a contemporary Gothic novel written by Diane Setterfield, in which the author included various elements of the original 18 th century genre, building up her plot and basing her characters on different classic works that are scattered throughout the storyline. This essay deals with the intertextuality between the book and one of the classic narratives it references, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The main focus of the paper is on the phenomenon of twins that characterizes both fictions. For attentive readers both the analogy and dichotomy between the two novels are evident, though Setterfield’s story introduces a new third sibling, giving to her own chain of events a fresh, eerie extension and a complexity to the plot.