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Tick-Tock: Dislocation of Time in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Miller, Kelly L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1438086865

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2015, M.A. (Master of Arts in English), Ohio Dominican University, English.
The novelistic structure and narrative devices in The French Lieutenant's Woman challenge readers by using the novel as a means to bring readers to see expectations of novels as restrictive by focusing on various forms of time--a universal entity, and by undermining novelistic conventions. The novel highlights the unstable nature of time, bringing to the forefront temporal flux, instability, and illusion. Fowles crafts a theme around this concept of time by engaging readers' interaction by problematizing temporal representations in ways that disorient readers and questions what readers "know" about time. The text guides readers in recognizing their disorientation and addressing their confusion. Fowles uses Postmodernist techniques that engage in history and show relevance to contemporary readers' time. Fowles dislocates time in various ways throughout his novel. By questioning and subverting expectations of time, Fowles challenges readers to recognize their expectations of novels and their discomfort when he restructures the novel. A major restructuring of novelistic convention is Fowles's use of multiple endings. Fowles includes four endings, though scholarship generally recognizes three. By creating a relation between eschatology and fiction, the expectations for endings are shown to be overwhelming machinations conferring tyrannical significance onto the beginning and middle of fiction.
Juliette Schaefer, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English (Advisor)
Martin Brick , Ph.D. Associate Professor of English (Committee Member)
Ann Hall, Ph.D. Professor of English, Director (Other)
78 p.
British and Irish Literature; Literature
The French Lieutenant s Woman; John Fowles

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  • Miller, K. L. (2015). Tick-Tock: Dislocation of Time in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant’s Woman [Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1438086865

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, Kelly. Tick-Tock: Dislocation of Time in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant’s Woman . 2015. Ohio Dominican University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1438086865.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, Kelly. "Tick-Tock: Dislocation of Time in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant’s Woman ." Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1438086865

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