John Fowles's the French lieutenant's woman : as a metafiction

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This research aims at the studying of metafiction as a new literary phenomenon in the, contemporary world to test its validity and suitability to it through the application of its theories to John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Womun, It is a satisfactory example of rnetafiction under the guise of a Victorian novel, which enables it to analyze the evils of that age together with the futility of its fictional conventions, In this novel, Fowles presents his theory of metafiction through his concepts of reality, history and freedom and their relations to fiction.