flw -pomo (1 Viewer)

[moemoe]

how is sarah a product of social constructs??
what does all the authorial intrusions, intertextuality and pomo techniques that draw the responder to the fictionality of the text and writing process say about pomo or how does it reflect the pomo paridigm

 

[arielbelle]

sarah is not a product of her society as she sets out to defy the moral expectations and patriarchal restraints her society tries to impose upon its members. by choosing to evolve beyond societal conventions, e.g. deliberate manipulation of public perception to mislead in regard to her past with varguennes, sarah outcasts herself and hence is a construct of the values and attitudes which underpin her society.
the authorial intrustions, intertextuality (epigrahs and footnotes) and pomo techniques (e.g. use of metafiction) are used to collaborate the reader into a process of meaning-making with the author and text. by challenging the archaic genre conventions fo the Victorian novel, and choosing to abandon linear structures (in the novel's multiple endings) and a coherent story, FLW explores new ways of thinking which are consistent which the pomo paradigm.

hope that answers your question.