Postmodernist techniques in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” In order to analyze postmodernist literature, it is important to recognize the tools which are used by the 20’s English novelists to bridge the gap between fiction and non-fiction, past and future, tradition and its own relation with modernism. In Postmodernism literature are used various strategies and techniques such as Intertextuality, Pastiche, Metafiction and Experimental Playfulness which became trademarks for the
Century literary scenario, takes past and present as two different entities and intermix in his fiction so as acknowledge the vitality of both. His novels dealt with past eras and characters with the shadows of the present time. The selection of narrative form and setting add to the tune of intermixing process. He does not merely intermix instead at points he separates both so as to bring the difference of the periods. The Twentieth century period
John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman communicates the narrative of Charles and Sarah set in the Victorian Era, as narrated by a heterodiegetic narrator who shifts between first and third person narration. The heterodiegetic narrator is presented as an authorial persona who writes about the Victorian world presented in the novel, in the 1960s as made evident by the narrator’s use of first person narration as well as the self-reflexive elements of the narrative which outline the authorial persona’s
Century literary scenario, takes past and present as two different entities and intermix in his fiction so as acknowledge the vitality of both. His novels dealt with past eras and characters with the shadows of the present time. The selection of narrative form and setting add to the tune of intermixing process. He does not merely intermix instead at points he separates both so as to bring the difference of the periods. The Twentieth century period
Narratology: Slaughterhouse Five and The French Lieutenant’s Woman The role of the narrator is crucial in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five and John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman as they help to convey the thematic concerns of writing and reality versus fiction, present in both texts. As the narratologist, Gérard Genette, discusses in Narrative Discourse, there are several ways of identifying the means in which the role of the narrator contributes to the aforementioned thematic concerns
“Sigmund Freud saw the uncanny as something long familiar that feels strangely unfamiliar. The uncanny stands between standard categories and challenges the categories themselves” (Turkle, 48). In John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, the reader is invited to explore strangeness within what is familiar. In these texts, the characters, and even the content, are complex and at times, incomprehensible. The struggle of the narrator and the other characters to make another
Postmodern Treatment of The French Lieutenant’s woman. The French Lieutenant 's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. It was his third published novel, after The Collector (1963) and The Magus (1965). The novel presents a Victorian tale and setting with the elements of Postmodernism and the characters that are ahead of their time. Thus, it resembles a Victorian novel in structure and detail, while pushing the traditional boundaries of narrative in a very modern manner.
FREEDOM I could not marry that man (the French sailor). So I married shame… What has kept me alive is my shame, my knowing that I am truly not like other women. This has something to do with her desire of freedom and to be different from other women. She functions as a model of ‘Existentialism’ philosophy, which advocates individual’s free will and lifestyle more than the societal beliefs and values. Sarah Woodruff is not the conventional Victorian woman who toes the line. She herself creates the
what is going on Sarah’ mind until at the end she asserts her individuality and freedom which she was trying to attain from the very beginning itself. 2.3 SARAH WOODRUFF: ROLE MODEL TO “EXISTENTIALISM” AND FREEDOM I could not marry that man (the French