Postmodern Themes and Strategies in The French Lieutenant's Woman

• Thesis title in Czech: Postmoderní témata a strategie ve Francouzově milence
• Thesis title in English: Postmodern Themes and Strategies in The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2008/2009
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 13.05.2009
• Date of assignment: 13.10.2009
• Date and time of defence: 02.06.2011 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 15.04.2011
• Date of proceeded defence: 02.06.2011
• Course: Diploma Thesis (OSZD001)
• Opponents: doc. PhDr. Anna Grmelová, CSc.

References

- BRADBURY, Malcolm: The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin, 1994

- HEAD, Dominic: The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002

- HUTCHEON, Linda: A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London: Routledge, 1995

- McHALE, Brian: Postmodernist Fiction. London: Routledge, 1987

Preliminary scope of work in English

The aim of the thesis is to find the postmodernist themes and strategies used in The French Lieutenant's Woman, and thus to analyse the features that make it a historiographic metafiction and not a traditional historical novel.