John Banville : Art and Authenticity
Banville, John Criticism, interpretation, etc
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
2013
EISBN 9783035305494
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 'Pure Refinement': Questioning Art and Politics in Birchwood and The Newton Letter; Chapter 2 'Progressive Failing'? The Science Tetralogy; Chapter 3 'The Pretext of Things': The Book of Evidence, Ghosts and Athena; Chapter 4 Lives and Deaths: The Untouchable, Eclipse and Shroud; Chapter 5 'The Point of Oblivion': The Sea, The Infinities and Ancient Light; Bibliography; Index.
This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Through thematic readings of the novels, Eoghan Smith examines the complexity of Banville's view of the artwork and explores the novelist's attraction and resistance to forms of authenticity, whether aesthetic, existential or ideological. Emphasizing in particular the influence of Banville's major Irish modernist precursor, Samuel Beckett, this book places the local elements of his writing alongside his wide-ranging literary and philosophical interests. Highlighting the.
This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Through thematic readings of the novels, Eoghan Smith examines the complexity of Banville's view of the artwork and explores the novelist's attraction and resistance to forms of authenticity, whether aesthetic, existential or ideological. Emphasizing in particular the influence of Banville's major Irish modernist precursor, Samuel Beckett, this book places the local elements of his writing alongside his wide-ranging literary and philosophical interests. Highlighting the.
