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Constructing Reality

Constructivism and Narration in John Fowles's "The Magus</I>

by Barbara Rommerskirchen (Author)
©2000 Thesis 126 Pages

Summary

Is Lily-Julie just a projection of Nicholas's own desires? Is reality just a projection of our own ideas? The former is one of the central questions in John Fowles's novel The Magus; the latter is the nucleus of constructivism.
This study traces constructivist ideas and their transformation into narrative in The Magus. For long before constructivist theories were put forth, John Fowles confronts both the protagonist of his novel and the reader with the central constructivist theme: the construction of reality.

Details

Pages
126
Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631353851
Language
English
Published
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 1999. 126 pp.

Biographical notes

Barbara Rommerskirchen (Author)

The Author: Barbara Rommerskirchen was born in Kempen, Germany, in 1972. She studied at the Universities of Bonn and Muenster, and at the Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen. From 1995 to 1996 she worked as a language assistant in Peterborough, England. In 1999 she graduated with a teacher certification and a Master of Arts in English and German from the RWTH Aachen.

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