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The French Lieutenants Woman Postmodernism in this novel: Meta-fiction Parody Pastiche Intertextuality Open ending Meta-fiction Novelists explore a theory of fiction through the practice of writing fiction, it is called “fiction about fiction, and because meta-fiction represents the authors’ concern with their own creation, reflects their self-consciousness during the fiction making, it is also called “self-conscious fiction”. John Fowles employs such a narrative device, using “I” to break into the narration and tells readers his writing process, always stops the story-telling abruptly, appearing as the narrator or as the characters in it, to tell the readers his creation motives. Eg: chapter 12 Parody Generally speaking, a writer creates a parody to ridicule the work of another by exaggerating that authors style or ideas. Parody in literature is like a cartoon in art. Expert parodists thoroughly know a lot about the subject they are parodying John Fowless The French Lieutenants Woman, Like many Victorian novels, is constructed by an omniscient narrator who communicates the entire narrative, and who always intrudes in order to make various comments on the characters. Here the narrator undermines the traditional mimetic narration by revealing himself as a modem narrator who is anti-mimetic or anti-referential, and who emphasizes instead the novels self-reflexiveness. Indeed he is not copying the Victorians but actually criticizing their own narrative style, it is a means of attacking the omniscient and godlike narrator. eg: chapter 13 Intertextuality A significant feature of The French Lieutenant’s Woman is that there is one or two quotations in the beginning of each chapter, and these quotations form the intertextuality with the texts in the novel. The quotations play a role of guidance and suggestion in the novel. They imply the content of each chapter, and play an important role in promoting the development of the plot. For example, chapter 10