John Banville
By: John Kenny.
Series: Visions and revisions -- 3
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780716529002; 9780716529019
Subjects: Banville, John -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: The belief in autonomy : intellectual and cultural contexts for Banville's work and reception; title: A man with nothing to say : the Irish context; title: Novels of their place and time : Birchwood, The Newton letter, The untouchable; title: The science of imagination and the art of the novel : the tetralogy and its surrounding ideas; title: Scenes of crime : the trilogy and Banville's moral fictions; title: Face painting : the arts of self-reflection in the trilogy and the late period.