POSTMODERNISM REVISITED: IDENTITY ISSUES IN JOHN FOWLES’S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN
POSTMODERNISM REVISITED: IDENTITY ISSUES IN JOHN FOWLES’S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN
Author(s): Aba-Carina PârlogSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: ekphrasis; identity; postmodernism; simulacrum; Victorian
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the issue of identity projected on a postmodern background in the novel mentioned above. Several identity types are analysed: Ernestina’s questionable linear identity, Sarah’s shifting identity and the multiple identity of the writer who moves on different levels in order to play with his characters.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 79-89
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English