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John Fowles : visionary and voyeur, Brooke Lenz, (electronic resource)

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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
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eng
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1 online resource (251 p.)
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9789042023888
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John Fowles : visionary and voyeur
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John Fowles
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visionary and voyeur
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Brooke Lenz
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eng
Summary
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
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Lenz, Brooke
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PR6056.O85
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Z736 2008eb
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non fiction
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Costerus
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new ser., 175
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  • Fowles, John
  • Fowles, John
  • Fowles, John
  • Voyeurism in literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Voyeurism in literature
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John Fowles : visionary and voyeur, Brooke Lenz, (electronic resource)
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (251 p.)
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electronic
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9789042023888
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John Fowles : visionary and voyeur, Brooke Lenz, (electronic resource)
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Color
multicolored
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (251 p.)
Form of item
electronic
Isbn
9789042023888
Specific material designation
remote
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  • (OCoLC)240698583
  • (OCoLC)ocn240698583

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