Author: Pamela Cooper
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776602993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This incisive and skillfully articulated study explores the complex power relationships in John Fowles's fictions, particularly his handling of the pivotal subjects of art and sex. Chapters on The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower are included, and a final chapter discusses Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.
The Fictions of John Fowles
Author: Pamela Cooper
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776602993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This incisive and skillfully articulated study explores the complex power relationships in John Fowles's fictions, particularly his handling of the pivotal subjects of art and sex. Chapters on The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower are included, and a final chapter discusses Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776602993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This incisive and skillfully articulated study explores the complex power relationships in John Fowles's fictions, particularly his handling of the pivotal subjects of art and sex. Chapters on The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower are included, and a final chapter discusses Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.
John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism
Author: Mahmoud Salami
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838634462
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838634462
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
The Fiction of John Fowles
Author: Carol M. Barnum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
The Fiction of John Fowles
Author: William J. Palmer
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A Maggot
Author: John Fowles
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316254983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In the spring of 1736 four men and one woman, all traveling under assumed names, are crossing the Devonshire countryside en route to a mysterious rendezvous. Before their journey ends, one of them will be hanged, one will vanish, and the others will face a murder trial. Out of the truths and lies that envelop these events, John Fowles has created a novel that is at once a tale of erotic obsession, an exploration of the conflict between reason and superstition, an astonishing act of literary legerdemain, and the story of the birth of a new faith.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316254983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In the spring of 1736 four men and one woman, all traveling under assumed names, are crossing the Devonshire countryside en route to a mysterious rendezvous. Before their journey ends, one of them will be hanged, one will vanish, and the others will face a murder trial. Out of the truths and lies that envelop these events, John Fowles has created a novel that is at once a tale of erotic obsession, an exploration of the conflict between reason and superstition, an astonishing act of literary legerdemain, and the story of the birth of a new faith.
The Romances of John Fowles
Author: Simon Loveday
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349178713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349178713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
John Fowles
Author: James Acheson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350310522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350310522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Daniel Martin
Author: John Fowles
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316231096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review). The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature, Daniel Martin is John Fowles at the height of his literary powers.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316231096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
A new trade paperback edition of "a masterpiece of symbolically charged realism....Fowles is the only writer in English who has the power, range, knowledge, and wisdom of a Tolstoy or James" (John Gardner, Saturday Review). The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence. A brilliantly imagined novel infused with a profound understanding of human nature, Daniel Martin is John Fowles at the height of his literary powers.
The Ebony Tower
Author: John Fowles
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409059855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller. 'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down' Financial Times
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409059855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written with stylistic innovation, this sequence of novellas exploring the nature of art echoes the themes and preoccupations of Fowles' earlier work and cements his position as a master storyteller. 'Pick up any of these stories and you won't, as they say, be able to put it down' Financial Times