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John Banville

Title
John Banville / Neil Murphy.
Author
Murphy, Neil
Publication
  • [Lewisburg, Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xiv, 215 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This critical study of John Banville's major work considers the manner in which his fiction intersects with a variety of ideas relating to art. It also proposes that Banville's fiction represents a significant development in Irish writing, and contemporary prose fiction, in its advanced reconstitution of the self-reflexive form"--
Series Statement
Contemporary Irish writers
Uniform Title
Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and Index.
Contents
The early evolution of an aesthetic: From Long Lankin to Mefisto -- The Frames Trilogy: The book of evidence, ghosts, and Athena -- Brush-strokes of Memory: The sea -- The art of self-reflexivity: The Cleave novels -- John Banville and Heinrich von Kleist, the art of confusion: The broken jug, God's gift, love in the wars, and the infinities -- Art and crime: Benjamin Black's Quirke Novels.
Call Number
JFE 18-6980
ISBN
  • 9781611488722
  • 1611488729
LCCN
2018011067
OCLC
1027812711
Author
Murphy, Neil, author.
Title
John Banville / Neil Murphy.
Publisher
[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Contemporary Irish writers
Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and Index.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-6980
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