Turn of the Screw, Part 3: Dworkin again

Published: March 28, 2012, 4:38 a.m.

[close reading] Ambiguity and meta-ambiguity in Turn of the Screw. \xa0Back to Dworkin: what does it mean to say a work should be the best that it could be? \xa0Does that mean that it should give us our preferred outcome? \xa0Cases of King Lear and Great Expectations considered. \xa0The idea of changing your taste, or learning what would make it best. \xa0Then back to thinking about Turn of the Screw.