Abstract

In terms of prose rhythm, The Ebony Tower by John Fowles possesses a multi-layered rhythmic pattern. The study revealed that the novella’s intense rhythmic expressiveness is largely due to the fact that rhythm is achieved not only on plane of expression but also on plane of content. Both, stylistic devices and repeated focus alterations and shifts, flashbacks in time and space appear to be at work to create prose rhythm in this currently obscured literary classic. In this article, we tried to prove that not only the language material of the text is full of rhythm but also the content, on the semantic level, possesses the rhythmic quality due to its marked expressiveness.