Daniel Martin’s Multiple Journeys

• Authors: Cornelia Coser
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Modern literature modifies the pattern on which most western narration was founded. The hero’s adventures come to exhibit the same dependence on initial conditions as dynamical systems do. In John Fowles’s novel, Daniel Martin, both character and author benefit from multiple journeys, the fractal characteristics of the novel standing in contrast with the wholeness of the vision.

Keywords

EN

the hero’s journey; adaptation of the myth; fictional experiments; fragmentation; wholeness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 194-209

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Cornelia Coser

• “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0020-0