Dos fantasmas à metaficção: da novela A volta do parafuso (1898) à minissérie A maldição da mansão Bly (2020)

Abstract

Through audiovisual adaptations, it is possible to notice different readings in the literary work, either through one or more references. This occurs in the miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) by Mike Flanagan, who rewrites the novel The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James, inserting new readings about the governess and the ghosts. Thus, this study aims to analyze the metafictional aspects present both in the miniseries and in the novella, in addition to demonstrating how the metafictional tool mise en abyme is explored in those works. To this end, we make use of exploratory research approach, divided in theoretical conceptualization, contextualization and analysis. We used as theoretical reference the studies on metafiction by Linda Hutcheon (1980), Patricia Waugh (1984), Gustavo Bernardo (2010) and Genilda Azerêdo (2019); in addition to the works of Lucien Dällenbach (1977) on mise en abyme; we also resort to the biographical study of Bruce R. McElderry (1965) on Henry James and his literary phases; for a better understanding of audiovisual, we utilized Umberto Eco (1989)’s and Arlindo Machado (2000)’s considerations of serialization, as well as miniseries studies provided by Anna Maria Balogh (2005), Maria Mungioli (2013) and Jean-Pierre Esquenazi (2010), among others that aggregate to this subject area. From these analysis, we manage to identify how both fictions render different layers which interconnect to each other, in addition to the notion of how metafiction is displayed in different semiotic means: in the literature, the novel recurs to constant writing explanation as literary artifact which makes use of various writing processes, direct interaction with the reader, along with intertextuality; in the miniseries, the core axis includes three characters points of view of the same diegesis and, as outcome, manifest the narrative’s mirroring.