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Item Details
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JOHN BANVILLE'S NARCISSISTIC FICTIONS
THE SPECTRAL SELF |
| By: |
Mark O'Connell |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137365242 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137365248 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
20 September, 2013 |
| Description: |
In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - missing twins, shame, false identities - and presents these as manifestations of a central concern with narcissism. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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