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Pastoral, Identity, and Memory in the Works of John Banville by Alexander G. Z. Myers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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John Banville's works waver indecisively between modernism and postmodernism. This study offers a hitherto unexplored vista on his works and argues that Banville is a post-/modern pastoralist. The pastoral lens opens new vistas to Banville's central concerns: the collusion of ethics and aesthetics, self-identification in narrative, and the topography of the troubled mind. Banville's characters harbour an Arcadia of the unconscious conditioned by a subtext of nostalgia. Caught in a crisis, his characters explore, subvert and transform the pastoral mode into an ambiguous quest for a stable self. Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2018

Who reads Pastoral, Identity, and Memory in the Works of John Banville?

Author

Alexander G. Z. Myers

Publisher

Francke, A., Verlag. in Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783772086472

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities