Interpretation And Analysis Of John Fowles S Postmodern Novel The Magus

Author : Sandra Bollenbacher
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656324119

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Interpretation and Analysis of John Fowles's Postmodern Novel "The Magus" by Sandra Bollenbacher Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: "The Magus" is John Fowles’s first written – though not first published – novel which he began to write in the 1950s. But only in 1977 after 12 years of revising did he publish the version he was finally satisfied with, which “is the one [he wanted] to see reprinted.” Its complexity and its richness of stories, symbolism and metaphors gained The Magus not only a lot of criticism but just as much success. The organised chaos of the masque distracts as well as interests and fascinates the reader. Even though there is no ‘real meaning of’ or ‘right reaction to’ the novel as such, there are possibilities of interpretation. The first part of this paper will be an interpretation of the most important features of the story, concentrating principally on Nicholas’s hunt for freedom, the symbolism of the women in the masque as well as the masque itself and the end. After that, the narrative techniques will be looked at more closely, leading to the question: In which aspects is The Magus postmodern?

Author : Mahmoud Salami
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 083863446X

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John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism by Mahmoud Salami Pdf

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.

Author : Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Şeyda Sivrioğlu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443862622

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The Faustus Myth in the English Novel by Şeyda Sivrioğlu Pdf

The Faustus myth, before being identified as a myth, was the folktale of a man named Faustus who lived in Germany. Underneath the popularity of this myth lies the basic human instinct to trespass the limits of traditional knowledge in pursuit of self-definition, authentic knowledge and power. This search and transgression also involve the desire to exercise the right of making free authentic choices. Faustus represents universal issues that are relevant for all human beings, which explains the reason why he has acquired mythic stature. Indeed, a most persistent myth has evolved, the appeal of which has led one writer after the other to reshape it. After his story became popular, he reappeared, even in contemporary culture, in different art forms such as literature, both high-brow and popular, including comics, the ballet and the opera. The real historical Faustus came onto the scene as a scholar and persistently reappeared in literature assuming different identities which, however, shared basically the same qualities. This book demonstrates and offers different perspectives to versions of the Faustus myth in literature: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Goethe’s Faust and John Fowles’ The Magus. The Faustus Myth is a cycle which starts and ends in tragic circumstances in Christopher Marlowe’s Renaissance Faustus, in salvation in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, and in meaninglessness, ambiguous collapses in John Fowles’ existentialist Nicholas Urfe.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106577030

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The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Pdf

Author : Kevin Paul Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230591707

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The Postmodern Fairytale by Kevin Paul Smith Pdf

Why is Shrek one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why are shampoo advertisements based on Sleeping Beauty? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places and why the best storytellers begin their tales with 'once upon a time'.

Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813108160

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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden Pdf

Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : 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 : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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NTA UGC NET/JRF English (Paper I & II) | Teaching and Research Aptitude | 1500+ Solved Questions [10 Full-length Mock Tests] by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

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Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015045627083

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The Magus by John Fowles Pdf

The Magus was originally published in 1965 and reissued in a revised version twelve years later. The story of Nicholas Urfe and his friendship with a demonic millionaire which leads to an elaborate series of staged hallucinations, riddles, and psychological traps, The Magus endures as the most enigmatic and magical novel in the Fowles canon, a work rich in symbols, conundrums, and labyrinthine twists of events. This Modern Library edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Author : Baethan Balor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663242310

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Outbursts of a Professional Lowlife; Thoughts of a Sober Barfly by Baethan Balor Pdf

I observed no human face other than my own and corresponded with no one this Christmas.

Author : Menotti Lerro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443874847

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Autobiographical Poetry in England and Spain, 1950-1980 by Menotti Lerro Pdf

The volume traces the founding critical theories of the autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments, which, since the Sixties and the essays of Roy Pascal and Jean Starobinski, have had a greater and greater influence. It offers – in contrast to the essential, and by now classic, definition of Philippe Lejeune – an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography, recognizing poetic writing that has the extraordinary ability to say what “the mortal language does not say,” to quote Leopardi. The works of Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma are analyzed here, and show an unveiling of the self through memories, places and objects that often characterize them and that allow, to whomever recalls one’s own experience through writing, the recovery and restoration of essential meanings to the reconstruction not only of subjective identity, but also of one’s own community.

Author : John Fowles
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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English Solved Papers by YCT Expert Team Pdf

2023-24 Assistant Professor/GDC English Solved Papers