John Fowles, The Tree

Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1979

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay / Lecture (literary)

Resources

John Fowles wrote The Tree in close cooperation with Frank Horvat, who not only contributed a preface, but also a wonderful collection of photographs of trees that support the arguments presented in Fowles’s text. Similar to other Fowles works, for instance Shipwreck (1974) or Islands (1978), The Tree thus draws substantially on the dialogue between words and images and emphasizes the importance of visuality for any critique of Fowles’s oeuvre (see Vieth). It is therefore with some caution that one should approach editions of this text that do not include the original photographs.

The Tree consists of four parts: the first concentrates on Fowles’s childhood and in particular …

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Citation: Bayer, Gerd. "The Tree". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 December 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10542, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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