Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles
The aim of this paper is to tackle what I consider to be the most important aspects of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, exploring the concepts of existential authenticity, intertextual organization, temporal organization, space, historicity, materialized into a plethora...
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| description | The aim of this paper is to tackle what I consider to be the most important aspects of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, exploring the concepts of existential authenticity, intertextual organization, temporal organization, space, historicity, materialized into a plethora of mythic quest archetypes in a God game literary manner. I will try to analyse these issues following two main coordinates: a horizontal one, as a matter of form, (aimed both at the literary analysis and the translation chapter), and a vertical, unseen part, that of metafiction and metalanguage. In a nutshell, all the elements that pinpoint Fowles’ uniqueness as a stunning novelist always fidgety and mischievous, always an eye-opener to his readers, never ceasing to amaze. The horizontal perspective, the form, could be used in class as basis for teaching translation or literature to bilingual classes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ae82b41e97604a748b131a857d841f022025-08-20T02:10:50ZengRomanian Association of Teachers of EnglishRATE Issues1844-61592019-12-01231Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John FowlesCamelia Barbu0Colegiul National ‘Ienachita Vacarescu’ Targoviste, RomaniaThe aim of this paper is to tackle what I consider to be the most important aspects of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, exploring the concepts of existential authenticity, intertextual organization, temporal organization, space, historicity, materialized into a plethora of mythic quest archetypes in a God game literary manner. I will try to analyse these issues following two main coordinates: a horizontal one, as a matter of form, (aimed both at the literary analysis and the translation chapter), and a vertical, unseen part, that of metafiction and metalanguage. In a nutshell, all the elements that pinpoint Fowles’ uniqueness as a stunning novelist always fidgety and mischievous, always an eye-opener to his readers, never ceasing to amaze. The horizontal perspective, the form, could be used in class as basis for teaching translation or literature to bilingual classes.https://rate.org.ro/index.php/ratei/article/view/51/50deconstructionjuxtapositionmetafictionsimulacrumtimelessnessintertextpostmodernism |
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| title | Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles |
| title_full | Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles |
| title_fullStr | Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles |
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| title_short | Postmodernism and multiple worlds in ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles |
| title_sort | postmodernism and multiple worlds in the french lieutenant s woman by john fowles |
| topic | deconstruction juxtaposition metafiction simulacrum timelessness intertext postmodernism |
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