By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to:

  1. Define and contextualize postmodern literary features, especially fragmentation, metafiction, and narrative indeterminacy, within the broader frame of 20th-century literature.

  2. Analyze Fowles’s use of postmodern techniques such as intrusive narration, shifting perspectives, and multiple endings.

  3. Evaluate how the novel challenges and deconstructs the Victorian novel tradition, especially through parody and irony.

  4. Discuss the role of reader participation in interpreting a fragmented, open-ended narrative.

  5. Make connections between theoretical ideas (e.g. Hutcheon, Waugh, Lyotard) and their application in literary texts.