Acknowledgments 3-4 Abstract in Chinese 4-6 Abstract in English 6 1. Introduction 10-18 1.1 The Life of John Fowles and His Literary Works 11-13 1.2 Brief Summary of The French Lieutenant‘s Woman 13 1.3 Social and Cultural Setting of 1960’s and the Rise of Postmodernism 13-18 2. The Fusion of Tradition and Experimentation in the Content of The French Lieutenant‘s Woman 18-33 2.1 Themes 18-24 2.1.1 Traditional Theme 18-21 2.1.2 Existentialist Theme 21-24 2.2 Fusion Reflected in the Selection of Subject Matters 24-33 2.2.1 Settings 25-27 2.2.2 Plots 27-29 2.2.3 Characters 29-33 3. The Fusion of Tradition and Experimentation Embodied in the Form of The French Lieutenant’s Woman 33-67 3.1 Language 33-38 3.1.1 Modes of Language of Different Schools of Novel 33-34 3.1.2 Language of The French Lieutenant‘s Woman 34-38 3.2 Structure 38-50 3.2.1 Structural pattern of traditional and postmodernist novels 38-40 3.2.2 Structure of The French Lieutenant’s Woman 40-50 3.3 Point of View 50-61 3.3.1 Types of Point of View 50-53 3.3.2 Point of View Of The French Lieutenant’s Woman 53-61 3.4 Fictionality of Fiction 61-67 4. Conclusion 67-70 Bibliography 70-72 |