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John Banville's narcissistic fictions
- Title
- John Banville's narcissistic fictions / Mark O'Connell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
- Author
- O'Connell, Mark, 1979-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-98 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii, 233 pages; 23 cm
- 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." -- Publisher website.
- Subject
- Banville, John > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index.
- Contents
- Banville's narcissists -- Missing twins -- The false self -- Shame -- Narrative narcissism -- The paradox of empathy.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-98
- ISBN
- 9780230361706 (hbk.)
- 0230361706 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013029254
- OCLC
- 864093771
- Author
- O'Connell, Mark, 1979- author.
- Title
- John Banville's narcissistic fictions / Mark O'Connell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-98