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John Banvilles 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. Banvilles characters harbour an Arcadia of the unconscious conditioned by a subtext of nostalgia. Caught in a crisis, his char

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Author

Alexander G. Z. Myers

Publisher

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag Tübingen

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783772056475

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Comparative Literature

Updated

2026-03-25