Deconstruction and Subversion: The French Lieutenant's Woman under the Perspective of Postmodern Deconstruction

Abstract

 Postmodernism is a movement that begins in the 20th century. The movement involves many fields, such as philosophy, art, and literature. The novel The French Lieutenant's Woman is a novel which was born in that period. As a metafiction, it has the feature of deconstruction that can be seen in the structures of the novel. At the same time, the deconstruction can be seen in the plots of the novel as well. The novel can be regarded as a typical work of postmodernism and deconstructionism. And this paper focuses mainly on reveling various deconstruction phenomena in the novel and tries to help readers to understand metafiction and deconstructionism better.