Conversations With John Fowles

Author : Dianne L. Vipond
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578061911

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Conversations with John Fowles by Dianne L. Vipond Pdf

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.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316231091

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Daniel Martin by John Fowles Pdf

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.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0878054235

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Conversations with John Gardner by John Gardner Pdf

This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9780099282839

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The Tree by John Fowles Pdf

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.

Author : JOHN FOWLES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by JOHN FOWLES Pdf

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137319364

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John Fowles by James Acheson Pdf

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.

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476622309

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Filming John Fowles by James Aubrey Pdf

John Fowles wrote five compelling stories later made into motion pictures. This book examines for the first time the film and video adaptations of these stories, as well as Fowles's role in adapting his literary genius to visual media. Besides his authorship of the screenplay for The Magus (1968), Fowles was an uncredited contributor to The Collector (1965) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1971), and to the British television adaptations The Ebony Tower and The Enigma. His unpublished short story "The Last Chapter" was adapted as a theatrical short film satirizing the James Bond novels. Few are aware that the 1997 thriller The Game was a brilliant adaptation of The Magus, or that Fowles himself acted out scenes from that novel for a Greek television documentary. This book gives deserved recognition to John Fowles as a contributor to cinema, a medium he both loved and distrusted, where his stories acquired vivid alternative lives.

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578060532

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Conversations with John Edgar Wideman by John Edgar Wideman Pdf

Interviews with the author of The Homewood Trilogy, Brothers and Keepers, and Philadelphia Fire.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316254984

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A Maggot by John Fowles Pdf

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.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

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.

Author : Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Essayists
ISBN : 9783643139481

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Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles by Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer Pdf

In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307428776

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The Journals by John Fowles Pdf

In 1963, John Fowles won international recognition with The Collector, his first published novel. In the years following—with the publication of The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Ebony Tower, and his other critically acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—Fowles took his place among the most innovative and important English novelists of our time. Now, with this first volume of his journals, which covers the years from 1949 to 1965, we see revealed not only the creative development of a great writer but also the deep connection between Fowles’s autobiographical experience and his literary inspiration. Commencing in Fowles’s final year at Oxford, the journals in this volume chronicle the years he spent as a university lecturer in France; his experiences teaching school on the Greek island of Spetsai (which would inspire The Magus) and his love affair there with the married woman who would later become his first wife; and his return to England and his ongoing struggle to achieve literary success. It is an account of a life lived in total engagement with the world; although Fowles the novelist takes center stage, we see as well Fowles the nascent poet and critic, ornithologist and gardener, passionate naturalist and traveler, cinephile and collector of old books. Soon after he fell in love with his first wife, Elizabeth, Fowles wrote in his journal, “She has asked me not to write about her in here. But I could not not write, loving her as I do. . . . What else I betrayed, I could not betray this diary.” It is that determined, unsparing honesty and forthrightness that imbues these journals with all the emotional power and narrative complexity of his novels. They are a revelation of both the man and the artist.

Author : Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137268

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John Fowles by Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds Pdf

The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with John Fowles, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Fowles's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

Author : Stan A. Vrana
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810815427

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Interviews and Conversations with 20th-century Authors Writing in English by Stan A. Vrana Pdf

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Author : Brooke Lenz
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042023888

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John Fowles by Brooke Lenz Pdf

Best known as the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus, John Fowles achieved both critical and popular success as a writer of profound and provocative fiction. In this innovative new study, Brooke Lenz reconsiders Fowles' controversial contributions to feminist thought. Combining literary criticism and feminist standpoint theory,John Fowles: Visionary and Voyeur examines the problems that women readers and feminist critics encounter in Fowles' frequently voyeuristic fiction.Over the course of his career, this book argues, Fowles progressively created women characters who subvert voyeuristic exploitation and who author alternative narratives through which they can understand their experiences, cope with oppressive dominant systems, and envision more authentic and just communities. Especially in the later novels, Fowles' women characters offer progressive alternative approaches to self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and social reform – despite Fowles' problematic idealization of women and even his self-professed “cruelty” to the women in his own life. This volume will be of interest to critics and readers of contemporary fiction, but most of all, to men and women who seek a progressive, inclusive feminism.