TAZ-TFG-2014-1776


Textual re-creations: A study of intertextuality in John Fowles's The Collector

Bruna Marzo, Belén
Martínez Alfaro, María Jesús (dir.)

Universidad de Zaragoza, FFYL, 2014
Filología Inglesa y Alemana department, Filología Inglesa area

Graduado en Estudios Ingleses


Free keyword(s): john fowles ; coleccionista ; intertextualidad ; interpretación ; caracterización ; coleccionar vs. crear ; few and many ( pocos y muchos) ; existencialismo ; tradición realista ; cuentos populares ; aristos ; tempestad ; jane austen ; amor cortés
Tipo de Trabajo Académico: Trabajo Fin de Grado
Notas: Resumen disponible también en inglés: In this dissertation I explore how intertextuality works in John Fowles’s The Collector (1963). My aim here is to discuss the novel’s main intertexts with a view to showing how they contribute to building characters and developing the novel’s plot and main themes. Fowles’s narrative is thus revealed to be more complex than it might seem. To begin with, and as I try to show, reading The Collector through its intertexts helps the reader to delve into some recurrent motifs and preoccupations in Fowles’s work, which makes for reflection on the writer’s interests, his view of art and his personal philosophy, highly influenced by existentialism. Furthermore, characterisation is very much based on connections with well-known works, such as, among others, Jane Austen’s novels, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Bluebeard”. Each character is, in a sense, a palimpsest in which others can be read, just as the novel itself can be said to contain other texts which Fowles re-creates by writing them into his novel and making them an integral part of it. Thus, the limits of the text are further and further expanded by the connections that can be established with other texts. This being so, the final aim of my analysis is to show that intertextuality not only enriches the narrative but also becomes central to the reader’s interpretation of the novel.

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