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John Banville

English

By (author): Neil Murphy

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banvilles major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleists plays. Banvilles 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, Banvilles 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 Banvilles 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.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 14 Jan 2025

Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Bucknell University PressU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781684485482

About Neil Murphy

NEIL MURPHY is a professor of English at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form and coeditor (with Keith Hopper) of The Short Fiction of Flann OBrien and (with W. Michelle Wang and Cheryl Julia Lee) of the Routledge Companion to Literature and Art.

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