10.4225/03/59210f59dbd3f Caroline Sheaffer-Jones Caroline Sheaffer-Jones The Subject of Narration: Blanchot and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw Monash University 2017 Maurice Blanchot Henry James The Turn of the Screw Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 2017-05-21 03:54:00 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_Subject_of_Narration_Blanchot_and_Henry_James_s_The_Turn_of_the_Screw/4959986 <div>Writing and that which it entails are the subject of countless texts by Maurice Blanchot. In particular, Blanchot has focused on the notion of the work, or more precisely on a groundlessness or an absence of the work,which he has designated from different perspectives over the course of more than half a century. In various ways, Blanchot has conceived of the work as an affirmation of its undoing. The question of narration, often about a confrontation with death, is fundamentally important, as is evident for ex-ample in Blanchot’s Death Sentence, The Madness of the Day or The Instant of My Death. In a sense, it is bound up with the possibility of the work. Writing about Henry James in “The Turn of the Screw” in The Book to Come, Blanchot discusses narration.</div>