Mythologization of time in the poetic reminiscences of J.R. Fowles’s “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”

Abstract

The paper focuses on mythologization of time in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles. The process of mythologization is carried out via the writer’s creative reception of his predecessors’ works. The present paper aims at a complex research of the reminiscences to poems by M. Arnold, T. Hardy, A. Tennyson and reinterpretation of time during the creative reception of verse. The author draws a conclusion about the mythologization of time, its particularities and meaning for J.R. Fowles’s novel.

Keywords

• John Fowles
• time
• mythologem
• mythologization
• intertext
• allusion
• reminiscence
• reception
• creative reception