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John Fowles

Auteure: Jonathan Noakes , Margaret Reynolds

Nombre de pages: 186

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.

Filming John Fowles

Auteure: James Aubrey

Nombre de pages: 204

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 His unpublished short story "The Last Chapter" was adapted as a theatrical short film satirizing the James Bond novels.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.

Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles

Auteure: Guido Isekenmeier , Gerd Bayer

Nombre de pages: 136

More than a decade after his death in 2005, this collection of essays celebrates the memory of John Fowles, one of the champions of early postmodernist literature in England. As the first publication of the German John Fowles Society, founded in 2015, the book brings together a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars who pay tribute to one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions, which address The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae, bear testimony to Fowles's lasting fascination. Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt nach seinem Tod im Jahr 2005 erfährt die Erinnerung an John Fowles, einen der wenigen frühen englischen Vertreter einer postmodernistischen Poetik, durch diese Aufsatzsammlung neue Impulse. Die Beiträge in diesem Band, der ersten Veröffentlichung der 2015 gegründeten Deutschen John-Fowles-Gesellschaft, behandeln einige seiner wichtigsten Texte ( Der Magus, Die Geliebte des französischen Leutnants, Der Ebenholzturm, Daniel Martin sowie die unveröffentlichten Mosaiksteine) aus der Perspektive eines Sammlers, eines Übersetzers und einer Handvoll...

The Recurrent Green Universe of John Fowles

Auteure: Thomas M. Wilson

Nombre de pages: 284

Ecocriticism is the emerging academic field which explores nature writing and ecological themes in all literature. Thomas M. Wilson's book is the first to consider the work of one of the most critically acclaimed and generally popular post-war English writers from an ecocritical perspective. Fowles is best known as a novelist and author of such works as The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Daniel Martin. Going beyond the fiction, this book also examines the many profound reflections on the natural world found in his essays, poems and his recently published Journals. John Fowles' writings have cast light on the ways we perceive the natural world, from curious scientific observer to Wordsworthian lover of natural places, as well as many other important and, at this time, crucial themes. This volume will be of interest to critics and readers of contemporary fiction, but most of all, to anyone curious about their place in the recurrent green universe that is our earth.

John Fowles

Auteure: James R. Aubrey

Nombre de pages: 358

John Fowles, best known as the author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, has also written numerous other works--fiction as well as nonfiction. This unique reference book by James R. Aubrey lists all of Fowles's writings for the first time. It also provides a detailed biography, criticism of his work from the perspective of various disciplines, explanatory notes, a census of characters, and a comprehensive bibliography. Aubrey begins with a biography of Fowles, based on information from his writings, published and personal interviews, and correspondence. This section also includes several photographs. The next section discusses Fowles's lesser-known nonfiction work by genre--philosophy, autobiography, biography, translations, book reviews, literary and visual-art criticism, history, and social commentary. Aubrey then pulls together the fiction of John Fowles in the order it was published. For each novel or short story Aubrey provides a description of the circumstances and process of composition, summarization, discussion of its public reception, and critiques of the film, television, or stage adaptations. Critical approaches to Fowles's fiction are covered next: biographical,...

Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman

Auteure: William Stephenson

Nombre de pages: 137

The ideal companion to the text and the film adaptation

John Fowles

Auteure: Eileen Warburton

Nombre de pages: 612

Based on exclusive access to Fowles's 50-year private diary, personal letters, and interviews--this is the first biography of the celebrated novelist of "The French Lieutenant's Woman."

Wormholes

Auteure: John Fowles

Nombre de pages: 399

Here, for the first time, is a riveting collection of Fowles's fugitive and intensely personal writings composed sinced 1963, ranging from essays and literary criticism to commentaries, autobiographical statements, memoirs and musings. Wormholes is a delicious sampling of the various matters that have plagued, preoccupied, or delighted Fowles throughout his life; it is a rich mine of essays as art and a `geography' of the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists.

Conversations with John Fowles

Auteure: Dianne L. Vipond

Nombre de pages: 278

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...

Understanding John Fowles

Auteure: Thomas C. Foster

Nombre de pages: 208

Bestselling literature author, Thomas C. Foster, writes in an informal and engaging style to show how a novel's structure - point of view, narrative voice, chapter construction, character 'emblems' and even the first sentence, serve to create meaning and form the special literary language of the novel.

The Journals

Auteure: John Fowles

Nombre de pages: 720

Commencing with his final year at Oxford, this first volume of John Fowles' journals chronicles the year he spent lecturing at a university in France; his experiences teaching on the Greek Island of Spetsai and his love afair there; and his return to England and struggle to achieve literary success.

The Journals

Auteure: John Fowles

Nombre de pages: 586

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 ...

John Fowles

Auteure: James Acheson

Nombre de pages: 266

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.

La torre de ébano

Auteure: John Fowles

Nombre de pages: 346

Con la precisión y el dominio del lenguaje que caracterizan su narrativa, Fowles nos vuelve a sumergir en un mundo poblado de personajes propios de lo mejor de la mitología clásica. Un joven crítico de arte se replantea su convencional vida tras visitar a un pintor inglés retirado voluntariamente a la campiña francesa en compañía de dos misteriosas muchachas. Un ladrón filosófico despierta a un escritor para someterle a la peor de las torturas. La desaparición de un exitoso miembro del Parlamento pone en jaque a la policía londinense. Un grupo de amigos, cada uno con sus miserias, pasa unos días agridulces en un idílico paraje campestre. Estas cuatro historias, acompañadas de la traducción de un romance amoroso medieval francés, recogen los apasionantes temas de las novelas que convirtieron a este autor en uno de los referentes de la literatura inglesa del XX. Cinco relatos del autor de "La mujer del teniente francés" y "El coleccionista", que constituyen ejemplos perfectos del estilo riquísimo, deslumbrante y magistral de Fowles, y que están a la altura de sus mejores obras.

St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers

Auteure: David Pringle

Nombre de pages: 774

As a companion volume to St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, this volume concentrates "on those types of fiction which may be labelled as horror novels, dark fantasies, ghost stories, gothic novels, tales of terror, supernatural fictions, occult fantasies, black-magic stories, psychological thrillers, tales of unease, "grand-guignol" shockers, creepy stories, shudder-pulp fictions, "contes cruels," uncanny stories, macabre fictions and weird tales."--Editor's note, p. ix.

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