John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions [electronic resource] : The Spectral Self /
O'Connell, M.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Banville's narcissists -- Missing twins -- The false self -- Shame -- Narrative narcissism -- The paradox of empathy.
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.
Banville, John
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.