Critical Essay by Constance B. Hieatt
[Fowles's] collection entitled The Ebony Tower takes [Marie de France's] Anglo-Norman lay of Eliduc as its focal point, or so the author states in ...
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In the following excerpt, Barnum analyzes the predominant themes and imagery of the works collected in The Ebony Tower.
John Fowles's fourth work of fiction, The Ebony Tower, continues the t...
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In the following assessment of The Ebony Tower, Lehmann-Haupt focuses on connections between the novella and stories in the collection, concluding that the work as a whole is "a thoroughly plea...
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In the following essay, Holmes compares and contrasts similarities and differences among the three stories, asserting that the stylistic devices, thematic development, and narrative mode of "Th...
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In the following excerpt, Foster provides a thematic analysis of the collection The Ebony Tower.
The novella The Ebony Tower will be quite familiar in structure and substance to readers of The Magu...
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In the following essay, Bevis explicates the function and purpose of Fowles's allusions to the Greek myth of Artemis and Actaeon in The Ebony Tower.
The Ebony Tower (1974) has not exactly bo...
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Below, Kapp offers a mixed appraisal of The Ebony Tower.
Though readers will never cease to long for great storytellers, the only ones around in America today—with the possible exceptions of...
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In the essay below, Wilson argues that a "Grail Quest theme" links the stories of The Ebony Tower, citing literary precedents and structural and technical similarities to The Magus.
I...
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In the following essay, Sollisch relates the principal themes of The Ebony Tower to Fowles's version of humanity's Fall: "not from innocence to knowledge but from knowledge to mys...
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In the essay below, Salys explains the allusions to medieval fiction and painting in The Ebony Tower, making connections between the modern and medieval contexts of the novella.
Allusions to mediev...
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Below, Alderman shows how a fundamental convention of the short story genre informs the themes and structure of The Ebony Tower.
The stories collected in John Fowles's The Ebony Tower consti...
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In the following essay, McDaniel traces the character development of the protagonists of The Ebony Tower in terms of a paralysis-action dichotomy that she identifies as a major feature of Fowles...
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In the essay below, Barnum offers a comprehensive overview of Fowles 's The Ebony Tower, noting similarities between the stories, particularly the recurring theme of missed opportunities, as we...
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Critical Essay by Constance B. Hieatt
