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- Title
RE-VISITING THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN AS A POSTMODERN TEXT.
- Authors
İŞÇİ, Veysel
- Abstract
In British literature, many eminent authors and works of literature emerged in the nineteenth century. The Victorian era constituted a tradition about how the novel genre must be, and, for several years, it set a pattern for forging fiction. But, with the alterations which are made in progress of time, the focus and perception of novel have shifted. It is clear that the conventional style of realist fiction has gone through different phases, at which it was mimicked or reproduced. In particular, an ironic approach towards the convention was adopted by postmodernism, a period in which the past tradition was both demolished and then re-built under the impact of contemporary and novel inclinations. In this context, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles could be regarded as a landmark that shows the boundaries between the past form and the novel experimental initiatives. Being one of the most significant and powerful novels of the British literature during the 1960s, The French Lieutenant’s Woman highlights the shifts initiated by postmodern art philosophy. Therefore, this study aims to examine the novel by illustrating certain codes and concepts, which make The French Lieutenant’s Woman a good example of postmodernist fiction.
- Subjects
FOWLES, John, 1926-2005; BRITISH literature; ART theory; POSTMODERNISM (Art); POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); REALIST fiction; AUTHORSHIP in literature
- Publication
International Journal of Language Academy, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 4, p134
- ISSN
2342-0251
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29228/ijla.38826