| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Banville's narcissists -- Missing twins -- The false self -- Shame -- Narrative narcissism -- The paradox of empathy |
| Summary |
"John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions" is an exploration of Banville's novels from the point of view of various psychoanalytic understandings of the concept of narcissism. It presents this increasingly central figure in contemporary fiction as a writer for whom narcissism is both an essential truth of selfhood and a fundamental aspect of the writing of fiction. Though it deals with a number of theoretical concepts, it does so in a straightforward and highly accessible manner. The book is not simply a reading of a single, isolated aspect of Banville's work; rather, it presents narcissism as the key to understanding this writer, and as a way of bringing together the various disparate strands - thematic, stylistic and formal - of his complex and enigmatic oeuvre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Banville, John -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Banville, John fast |
| Subject |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English.
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Literary theory -- English.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137365248 |
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1137365242 |
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