Browsing by Author "Aissa Dilmi, Sabrina"

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A comparative study of formal and thematic responses to the representation of marriage in victorian literature in john fowles's postmodern novel the french lieutenant's woman and jeffery eugenides's metamodern novel the marriage plot
(Université M'Hamed Bougara : Faculté de Technologie, 2023) Aissa Dilmi, Sabrina; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thèse); Benmezal, Farid(Directeur de thèse)
This thesis is a comparative study of literary responses to the representation of marriage in Victorian literature in John Fowles’s Postmodern novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Jeffery Eugenides’s Metamodern novel The Marriage Plot. It aims specifically to examine the different ways in which Fowles and Eugenides respond to the form and content of the Victorian novel in treating marriage in relation to the respective philosophical understanding of truth. In essence, both authors seek a literary tradition that is more fully responsive to the cultural and material impulses of their new worlds. To demonstrate Fowles’s deconstruction and Eugenides’s reconstruction of truth, this thesis draws its methodological foundations on form and content from Bakhtinian, Marxist, Feminist and Metamodern concepts. These theories are pertinent to this research because, despite using various methodologies, they all elicit the Postmodern and Metamodern textual implications that Fowles and Eugenides use to find a valid contemporary voice among the overpowering influence of the classic Victorian marriage plot. The results of this study show how the Postmodern and Metamodern texts reveal a deep crack in the traditional marriage in the Victorian novel. These texts create a rich and valid source from which to examine the development of form. This study simultaneously discusses content, and how its narratives connect to larger cultural narratives of class and gender. The multidisciplinary aspect of this research emphasizes the interconnection between nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century literary works and cultural history. Fowles turns to the Victorian novel to deconstruct the nineteenth-century fiction and marriage, rejecting its objective truth. Eugenides, however, oscillates towards both the Victorian and Postmodern fiction in an attempt to restore truth.
A Critique against Social Class in Jay Gatsby and Charles Smithson: An Oscillation between Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(Université de Blida 2, 2021) Aissa Dilmi, Sabrina
A comparison between Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Robert Fowles’s The French lieutenant’s Woman under Marxist lenses exhibits the similarities in the class struggle that Jay Gatsby and Charles Smithson endure in their societies. Gatsby is a character of low birth who acquires a fortune, but still feels the need to purify his money with a title. Charles, on the other hand, is a character of high birth who loses his chance of inheritance and needs the money to remain a Victorian gentleman. Both of these protagonists go through forms of social consciousness in order to understand the social constructs and the Capitalist economy that control them. Yet, unlike Fitzgerald who condemns Gatsby for idolizing the Capitalist social order, Fowles conveys that Charles has the choice to free himself from the social constraints.