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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The French Lieutenant's Woman"”.
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Hindsight and sexuality in the French Lieutenant's Woman
The following thesis investigates the role of hindsight and sexuality in The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles. In this instance I look closely at the two main characters of the novel, namely Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, and I show the varying levels of freedom that each character …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
… novels. My approach accords with his major theme: that true perception is "seeing whole." My readings involve, first, a close textual analysis which demonstrates how Fowles uses patterning, counterpoint, symbol and image clusters to suggest the nature of reality. I also examine extensively …
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Gender and Creativity: Female Artist Subplots From Hawthorne to Fowles
… Creativity is a dialogic study of five novels. The introduction briefly summarizes the characteristics of the artist plot. Chapter One examines the disruptive textual interplay between female artist subplots and the centripetal finalizing force of a dominant romance plot. In the novels examined, …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
This thesis proposes to re-examine John Fowles's self-reflexive practice and its interactions with existential themes on the basis that critical commentaries have not fully accounted for the rigour of his reflexive approach, nor for the complexity of its interrelations with existential philosophy, …