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Book The Fictions of John Fowles

Download or read book The Fictions of John Fowles written by Pamela Cooper and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book John Fowles s Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism

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.

Book The French Lieutenant s Woman

Download or read book The French Lieutenant s Woman written by John Fowles and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Maggot

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2013-04-02
  • ISBN : 0316254983
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book A Maggot written by John Fowles and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Ebony Tower

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2010-10-31
  • ISBN : 1409059855
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Ebony Tower written by John Fowles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Daniel Martin

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0316231096
  • Pages : 571 pages

Download or read book Daniel Martin written by John Fowles and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Enigma of Stonehenge

Download or read book The Enigma of Stonehenge written by John Fowles and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1981 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today.

Book Conversations with John Fowles

Download or read book Conversations with John Fowles written by Dianne L. Vipond and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best known for his novels The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles is also a short story writer, a poet, a respected translator, and a prolific essayist. In his long literary career, he has managed the feats of welding stunning innovation to tradition, pushing the formal boundaries of literary fiction, and still capturing critical acclaim, popular success, and a worldwide readership. In Conversations with John Fowles, the first book of interviews devoted to the English writer, Dianne L. Vipond gathers over twenty of the most revealing interviews Fowles has granted in the last forty years. With critics, scholars, and journalists, he discusses his life, his art, his distinctive world view, and his special relationship with nature. Throughout his interviews, Fowles's remarkable consistency of thought is illuminated as he covers the meaning and genesis of his work. His uncompromising honesty and refreshing lack of guardedness are evident when he compares the naturalness of writing with eating or making love. From the 1960s through the 1990s, this master chronicler of the late half of the twentieth century reveals his serious engagement with social, political, and philosophical issues. He identifies himself with feminism, socialism, humanism, and the environmental movement, and he explores his recurring theme of personal, artistic, and socio-political freedom. His books, he says, "are about the difficulty of attaining personal freedom, especially in terms of discovering what one is." Any reader who has been intrigued, challenged, and entertained by his work in the past is sure to find these conversations spanning the writer's career to be stimulating and revealing. Dianne L. Vipond is a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. A co- editor of the book Literacy, Language, and Power, she has published articles in English Journal, Short Story, Twentieth Century Literature, and the Los Angeles Times.

Book Something and Nothingness

Download or read book Something and Nothingness written by John Neary and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the sounds of the earth) is an overlooked key to examining and comparing the works of John Fowles and John Updike. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both Christian and secular existentialism within the modern theology of Barth and Levinas and the contemporary critical theory of Derrida and J. Hillis Miller, Neary demonstrates the ultimate affinity of these authors who at first appear such opposites. He makes clear that Fowles's postmodernist, metafictional experiments reflect the stark existentialism of Camus and Sartre while Updike's social realism recalls Kierkegaard's empirical faith in a generous God within a kind of Christian deconstructionism. Neary's perception of uncanny similarities between the two authors--whose respective careers are marked by a series of novels that structurally and thematically parallel each other--and the authors' shared long-term interest in existentialism and theology support both his critical comparison and his argument that neither author is "philosophically more sophisticated nor aesthetically more daring."

Book Madness in Fiction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Axelrod-Sokolov
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-03-16
  • ISBN : 3319705210
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Madness in Fiction written by Mark Axelrod-Sokolov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such as a historical moment, physical pressure (such as starvation), or the author’s or his narrator’s perspective. The project approaches the texts it explores from the perspective of a writer of fiction as well as from the perspective of a critic, and discusses them as unique manifestations of literary madness. It is of particular significance for those interested in the interplay of fiction, literary criticism, and psychology.

Book Literature   Existentialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Paul 1905- Sartre
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781013909870
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Literature Existentialism written by Jean Paul 1905- Sartre and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Mantissa

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2013-04-02
  • ISBN : 0316255637
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Mantissa written by John Fowles and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse.

Book Understanding John Fowles

Download or read book Understanding John Fowles written by Thomas C. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling literature author, Thomas C. Foster, writes in an informal and engaging style to show how a novel's structure - point of view, narrative voice, chapter construction, character 'emblems' and even the first sentence, serve to create meaning and form the special literary language of the novel.

Book John Fowles

Download or read book John Fowles written by Eileen Warburton and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2004 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on exclusive access to Fowles's 50-year private diary, personal letters, and interviews--this is the first biography of the celebrated novelist of "The French Lieutenant's Woman."

Book The Art of Fiction

Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Book The Tree

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0099282836
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book The Tree written by John Fowles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive.

Book Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fowles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780912946030
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Poems written by John Fowles and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: