John Fowless Fiction And The Poetics Of Postmodernism

Author : Mahmoud Salami
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838634462
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism written by Mahmoud Salami and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salami presents, for instance, a critique of the self-conscious narrative of the diary form in The Collector, the intertextual relations of the multiplicity of voices, the problems of subjectivity, the reader's position, the politics of seduction, ideology, and history in The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman. The book also analyzes the ways in which Fowles uses and abuses the short-story genre, in which enigmas remain enigmatic and the author disappears to leave the characters free to construct their own texts. Salami centers, for example, on A Maggot, which embodies the postmodernist technique of dialogical narrative, the problem of narrativization of history, and the explicitly political critique of both past and present in terms of social and religious dissent. These political questions are also echoed in Fowles's nonfictional book The Aristos, in which he strongly rejects the totalization of narratives and the materialization of society.

Author : Sandra Bollenbacher
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656324115
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretation and Analysis of John Fowles's Postmodern Novel "The Magus" written by Sandra Bollenbacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: "The Magus" is John Fowles’s first written – though not first published – novel which he began to write in the 1950s. But only in 1977 after 12 years of revising did he publish the version he was finally satisfied with, which “is the one [he wanted] to see reprinted.” Its complexity and its richness of stories, symbolism and metaphors gained The Magus not only a lot of criticism but just as much success. The organised chaos of the masque distracts as well as interests and fascinates the reader. Even though there is no ‘real meaning of’ or ‘right reaction to’ the novel as such, there are possibilities of interpretation. The first part of this paper will be an interpretation of the most important features of the story, concentrating principally on Nicholas’s hunt for freedom, the symbolism of the women in the masque as well as the masque itself and the end. After that, the narrative techniques will be looked at more closely, leading to the question: In which aspects is The Magus postmodern?

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134986270
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Postmodernism written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : JOHN FOWLES
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN written by JOHN FOWLES and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622302
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filming John Fowles written by James Aubrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fowles wrote five compelling stories later made into motion pictures. This book examines for the first time the film and video adaptations of these stories, as well as Fowles's role in adapting his literary genius to visual media. Besides his authorship of the screenplay for The Magus (1968), Fowles was an uncredited contributor to The Collector (1965) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1971), and to the British television adaptations The Ebony Tower and The Enigma. His unpublished short story "The Last Chapter" was adapted as a theatrical short film satirizing the James Bond novels. Few are aware that the 1997 thriller The Game was a brilliant adaptation of The Magus, or that Fowles himself acted out scenes from that novel for a Greek television documentary. This book gives deserved recognition to John Fowles as a contributor to cinema, a medium he both loved and distrusted, where his stories acquired vivid alternative lives.

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137319364
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Fowles written by James Acheson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276207
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810868555
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202915
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Recurrent Green Universe of John Fowles written by Thomas M. Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism is the emerging academic field which explores nature writing and ecological themes in all literature. Thomas M. Wilson’s book is the first to consider the work of one of the most critically acclaimed and generally popular post-war English writers from an ecocritical perspective. Fowles is best known as a novelist and author of such works as The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Daniel Martin. Going beyond the fiction, this book also examines the many profound reflections on the natural world found in his essays, poems and his recently published Journals. John Fowles’ writings have cast light on the ways we perceive the natural world, from curious scientific observer to Wordsworthian lover of natural places, as well as many other important and, at this time, crucial themes. This volume will be of interest to critics and readers of contemporary fiction, but most of all, to anyone curious about their place in the recurrent green universe that is our earth.

Author : Guido Isekenmeier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643139489
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles written by Guido Isekenmeier and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.