{"product_id":"john-banville-and-his-precursors-9781350084520","title":"John Banville and His Precursors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePietra Palazzolo\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Open University, UK and serves on the Executive Committe of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTranslating Myth\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).  \u003cb\u003eMichael Springer\u003c\/b\u003e is an Independent Scholar and previously taught at the University of York, UK.  \u003cb\u003eStephen Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in the Department of English and History at Ulster University, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Banville and His Precursors\u003c\/i\u003e includes a number of intellectual delights. ... [it] is the resounding evidence that reading Banville is a life-long pursuit and delight. * Irish Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors Foreword Acknowledgements  Introduction – Michael Springer, independent scholar \u003cb\u003ePart one: National and transnational currents\u003c\/b\u003e 1. John Banville and the idea of the precursor: some meditations – Derek Hand, Dublin City University, Ireland 2. Unknown unity: Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville – Peter Boxall, University of Sussex, UK  \u003cb\u003ePart two: Literary Engagements\u003c\/b\u003e 3. ‘The vain thing menaced by the touch of the real’: John Banville as a precursor to Henry James – Darren Borg, Los Angeles Pierce College, USA 4. From Isabel Archer to Mrs Osmond: John Banville reinterprets Henry James – Elke D’hoker, University of Leuven, Belgium 5. Afterlives of a supreme fiction: John Banville’s dialogue with Wallace Stevens – Pietra Palazzolo, The Open University, UK 6. Effacing the subject: Banville, Kleist and a world without people – Rebecca Downes, independent scholar 7. The limits of simile: Rilke, Stevens, and Banville’s scepticism – Michael Springer  8. John Banville and Hugo von Hofmannsthal: language, mundane revelation, and profane sacrality – Joakim Wrethed, Stockholm University, Sweden  \u003cb\u003ePart three: Philosophical, theoretical, and artistic forebears\u003c\/b\u003e 9. ‘A fool’s errand’: Blanchot, mourning, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e – Karen McCarthy  10. Reading Banville with Lacan: hysteric aesthetics in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Evidence \u003c\/i\u003e– Mehdi Ghassemi, University of Lille, France 11. Existential precursors and contemporaries in Banville’s Alex Cleave trilogy  – Stephen Butler, Ulster University, Northern Ireland 12. ‘an \u003ci\u003eearthly\u003c\/i\u003e glow’: Heidegger and the uncanny in \u003ci\u003eEclipse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e – Michael Springer  13. John Banville’s ekphrastic experiments  – Neil Murphy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515687002455,"sku":"9781350084520","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-banville-and-his-precursors-9781350084520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}