📝 Lecture 11 Feedback – Postmodernism and Fragmentation
📝 Lecture 11 Feedback
Postmodernism and Fragmentation in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Reflect on how postmodern fiction challenges narrative authority, stable meaning, historical certainty, and traditional expectations of storytelling.
1. How well did you understand the major characteristics of postmodern fiction?
1 — Not clear at all | 2 — Slightly clear | 3 — Moderately clear | 4 — Very clear | 5 — Completely clear
2. I can distinguish between modernist fragmentation and postmodern fragmentation.
Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly agree
3. Which postmodern technique was the clearest to you?
Metafiction • Intrusive narration • Multiple endings • Parody • Irony • Narrative indeterminacy
4. Which concept requires further explanation?
Metanarratives • Reader participation • Authorial authority • Multiple endings • Victorian parody • None
5. How does John Fowles use an intrusive narrator and multiple endings to challenge traditional storytelling?
6. How did this lecture change your understanding of the reader’s role in constructing meaning?
7. What suggestion would help improve this lecture?
Postmodern reading begins by questioning how stories produce meaning.