%0 Journal Article %T The turn of the screw: sobre Henry James, William James, c¨Śrebros e fantasmas %A Gutman %A Guilherme %J Alea : Estudos Neolatinos %D 2005 %I Unversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S1517-106X2005000100006 %X the henry james's short story the turn of the screw was object of full criticism activity. along nearly a century, two major interpretative groups become an obligatory reference. one of the groups, composed of reports, papers and books, inserts jame's short story in the fantastic narrative line; the second interpretative group is caracterized by psychological emphasis, suggesting that the turn of the screw isn't a ghost story, but a study in ficction of psychical suffer. in that line of discussions, the author looks to introduce a third way of interpretation well-grounded by some technical elements of william james's works, brother of henry. %K the turn of the screw %K henry james %K william james. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-106X2005000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en