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The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics Of John Fowles, Claiborne Johnson Cordle
The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics Of John Fowles, Claiborne Johnson Cordle
Master's Theses
Because a thesis is by definition a proposi tion to be argued, I feel some obigation to make strong assertion--either John Fowles is a post modernist writer, or John Fowles is not a postmodernist writer. What is immediately "problematic" about such an either/or proposition is that each side can be argued convincingly by a careful process of selection of examples to support the prospective cases (and omission of those which refute them). I cannot easily dismiss the wisdom of Northrop Frye's statement that, "They think of ideas as weapons; they seek the irrefutable argument, which keeps eluding them because all …