John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions

The Spectral Self

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Author:

O'Connell, Mark

ISBN:

978-0-230-36170-6

Publication Date:

Sep 2013

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $54.99

Book Description:

In reading Banville's novels through the work of key psychoanalytical theorists, John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions brings together apparently disparate thematic strands - missing twins, shame, false identities - and presents these as manifestations of a central concern with narcissism.

Book Details

Pages:	233
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.64 x 9.68 x 0.94 Inches
Book Weight:	9 Pounds

Author Biography

O'Connell, Mark (Author)

Mark O'Connell is an Irish author and teacher, born in 1979 and based in Dublin. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin. His academic work on, John Banville's Narcissistic Fiction, was published in 2013. From 2011 to 2012 he was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College and taught contemporary literature. His debut book, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, was published in 2017 and won for him the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize.

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