John Banville And His Precursors

Download John Banville And His Precursors full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online John Banville And His Precursors ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

John Banville and His Precursors

Author : Pietra Palazzolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350084530
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Banville and His Precursors by : Pietra Palazzolo

Download or read book John Banville and His Precursors written by Pietra Palazzolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors 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 The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osmond – John Banville and His Precursors reveals 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.

John Banville and His Precursors

Author : Pietra Palazzolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350084551
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (845 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Banville and His Precursors by : Pietra Palazzolo

Download or read book John Banville and His Precursors written by Pietra Palazzolo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors 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 The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osbourne - John Banville and His Precursors reveals 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"--

Doctor Copernicus

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 036974974X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Doctor Copernicus by : John Banville

Download or read book Doctor Copernicus written by John Banville and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize–winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat. "A tour de force… Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." —The Times

Eclipse

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425703
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Eclipse by : John Banville

Download or read book Eclipse written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid ghost of his father. Now that he’s fifty and has returned to his boyhood home to recover from a nervous breakdown on stage, he is not surprised to find the place still haunted. He is surprised, however, at the presence of two new lodgers who have covertly settled into his old roost. And he is soon overwhelmed by how they, coupled with an onslaught of disturbing memories, compel him to confront the clutter that has become his life: ruined career, tenuous marriage, and troubled relationship with an estranged daughter destined for doom.

Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard

Author : Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604979534
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (795 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard by : Hedda Friberg-Harnesk

Download or read book Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard written by Hedda Friberg-Harnesk and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Gold E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader, PDF, and device access. An abridged version can be downloaded in PDF and device formats.

The Buried Giant

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353227
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Buried Giant by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

Fingersmith

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573229722
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fingersmith by : Sarah Waters

Download or read book Fingersmith written by Sarah Waters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oliver Twist with a twist…Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”—The New York Times Book Review The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.

John Banville

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Banville by : Ingo Berensmeyer

Download or read book John Banville written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis All that is Solid Melts Into Air by : Marshall Berman

Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

The Invented Part

Author : Rodrigo Fresan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (535 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Invented Part by : Rodrigo Fresan

Download or read book The Invented Part written by Rodrigo Fresan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

The Book of Evidence

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307817121
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Book of Evidence by : John Banville

Download or read book The Book of Evidence written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.

The Once and Future Liberal

Author : Mark Lilla
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1849049955
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Once and Future Liberal by : Mark Lilla

Download or read book The Once and Future Liberal written by Mark Lilla and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 40 years, Ronald Reagan's vision--small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism--has remained America's dominant political ideology. The Democratic Party has offered no truly convincing competing vision. Instead, American liberalism has fallen under the spell of identity politics.Mark Lilla argues with acerbic wit that liberals, originally driven by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, have now unwittingly invested their energies in social movements rather than winning elections. This abandonment of political priorities has had dire consequences. But, with the Republican Party led by an unpredictable demagogue and in ideological disarray, Lilla believes liberals now have an opportunity to turn from the divisive politics of identity, and offer positive ideas for a shared future. A fiercely-argued, no-nonsense book, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our momentous times.

The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson

Author : Eamonn Jordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051225
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson by : Eamonn Jordan

Download or read book The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson written by Eamonn Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including Shining City, The Seafarer, The Night Alive and Girl from the North Country, garnering international acclaim and being regularly produced around the globe. McPherson has also had significant successes as a theatre director, film director and screenwriter, most notably, with his award-winning screenplay for I Went Down. This companion offers a detailed and engaging critical analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson. It considers issues of gender and class disparity, violence and wealth in the cultural and political contexts in which the work is written and performed, as well as the inclusion of song, sound, the supernatural, religious and pagan festive sensibilities through which initial genre perceptions are nudged elsewhere, towards the unconscious and ineffable. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor McPherson, this is a book to be read by theatre audiences, performance-makers and students who wish to explore, contextualize and situate McPherson's provocative, exquisite and generation-defining writings and performances.

The Shattered Worlds of Standish O'Grady

Author : Christopher Boettcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846827853
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Shattered Worlds of Standish O'Grady by : Christopher Boettcher

Download or read book The Shattered Worlds of Standish O'Grady written by Christopher Boettcher and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Standish O'Grady (1846-1928) is best remembered as the 'Father of the Irish Literary Revival'. Critics of have long puzzled, however, about the turns and contradictions of the 'Fenian-unionist's' thinking. This book offers an intellectual biography of O'Grady, tracing the tortuous development and influence of his ideas.It presents a new study of O'Grady's early historical and political works and, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of O'Grady's writing for the All Ireland Review. He edited the review between 1900 and 1907, the most prolific period of his writing life. This writing led O'Grady into many curious schemes, culminating in his turn to anarchism and promotion of 'Estates of the New Order', a plan to build communes in the Irish countryside.The portrait of the enigmatic writer contextualizes his role in the rise of Irish nationalism and explores the complexities of political and social affiliations during the first, formative decade of the twentieth century"--

The Blue Guitar

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385354274
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Blue Guitar by : John Banville

Download or read book The Blue Guitar written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Banville, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel—at once trenchant, witty, and shattering—about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme (“O O O. An absurdity. You could hang me over the door of a pawnshop”), is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who has never before been caught and steals only for pleasure. Both art and the art of thievery have been part of his “endless effort at possession,” but now he’s pushing fifty, feels like a hundred, and things have not been going so well. Having recognized the “man-killing crevasse” that exists between what he sees and any representation he might make of it, he has stopped painting. And his last act of thievery—the last time he felt its “secret shiver of bliss”—has been discovered. The fact that the purloined possession was the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend has compelled him to run away—from his mistress, his home, his wife; from whatever remains of his impulse to paint; and from a tragedy that has long haunted him—and to sequester himself in the house where he was born. Trying to uncover in himself the answer to how and why things have turned out as they have, excavating memories of family, of places he has called home, and of the way he has apprehended the world around him (“one of my eyes is forever turning towards the world beyond”), Olly reveals the very essence of a man who, in some way, has always been waiting to be rescued from himself.

John Banville

Author : Rüdiger Imhof
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Banville by : Rüdiger Imhof

Download or read book John Banville written by Rüdiger Imhof and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth consideration of Banville's novels in relation to the conventions of contemporary Irish fiction, the tradition of the novel, postmodernist experimentation, & the artistic sensibility.

All on Show

Author : Eleanor Lybeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782052944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis All on Show by : Eleanor Lybeck

Download or read book All on Show written by Eleanor Lybeck and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All on Show takes the circus in literature as its theme. The book introduces readers to the obscure history of the circus and travelling entertainment in Ireland while contextualising celebrated works by major writers of the twentieth century including Ó Conaire, Joyce, Yeats, Friel and Heaney. It uses theories of performance to explore how and why writers might turn to the world of the circus for inspiration as they confront issues of politics, national identity, gender and sexuality. At the same time, Lybeck acknowledges the sensual intensity of the circus while reading live performance events, film and visual art alongside her literary subjects. The study is complemented by analysis of hitherto neglected archival material and exciting original interviews with John Banville, Neil Jordan and Paul Muldoon. Never before has the circus been treated with such seriousness as a theme in Irish writing. As a result, All on Show, offers readers the opportunity to reflect on changes in Irish culture and society from a unique perspective: one that is at once dazzling and unsettling; disheartening and enchanting