{"product_id":"john-banville-and-his-precursors-9781350211568","title":"John Banville and His Precursors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together leading international scholars,\u003ci\u003e John Banville and His Precursors\u003c\/i\u003e explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot.   Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/i\u003eto his latest book, \u003ci\u003eMrs  Osmond \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Banville and His Precursors \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions - Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism  and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways.\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 PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187288531287,"sku":"9781350211568","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-banville-and-his-precursors-9781350211568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}