About this literary studies
Pastoral, Identity, and Memory in the Works of John Banville (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) Book 144) by Alexander G. Z. Myers is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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