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Contemporary Irish Writers Ser.: John Banville by Neil Murphy (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBucknell University Press
ISBN-101684485487
ISBN-139781684485482
eBay Product ID (ePID)13067056985
Product Key Features
Number of Pages236 Pages
Publication NameJohn Banville
LanguageEnglish
SubjectModern / 20th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2025
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorNeil Murphy
SeriesContemporary Irish Writers Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Reviews[A]lerts both readers and scholars of Banville's fiction to the ways in which ekphrasis is deployed innovatively and pivotal to the unique ontological modes of the storyworlds in these novels. This book undoubtedly opens new pathways to reading Banville's work., [S]cholarly solid, shrewd, and inspiring. The broadly conceived take on John Banville's writing through and with the visual arts is exceedingly valuable and so is the pioneering exploration of the Benjamin Black novels and the detective genre. This monograph is an important contribution to Banville studies and to the broader field of Irish studies.
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal823.914
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Early Evolution of an Aesthetic: From Long Lankin to Mefisto 2. The Frames Trilogy: The Book of Evidence , Ghosts , and Athena 3. Brush-Strokes of Memory : The Sea 4. The Art of Self-Reflexivity: The Cleave Novels 5. John Banville and Heinrich von Kleist--The Art of Confusion: The Broken Jug , God's Gift , Love in the Wars , and The Infinities 6. Art and Crime: Benjamin Black's Quirke Novels Conclusion Bibliography Index
SynopsisJohn Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays. Banville's work has been marked by an embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-consciousness of its own status as art. His novels perpetually reveal an overt fascination with the visual arts, in particular, and with the aesthetic principle of literature as art. This study asserts that, as a whole, Banville's work presents an elaborate and richly textured coded account of his relationship with art and with the self-referential fictional world that his novels conjure. It is from this critical context that John Banville 's central argument is derived: that his fiction can be viewed as an extended interrogation of the meaning and status of art and that it is itself representative of the type of art admired in the pages of the novels. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press., John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays. It asserts that Banville's fiction can be viewed both as an extended interrogation of the meaning and status of art, and that it is itself representative of the type of art admired in the pages of the novels.
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