John Banville's Narcissistic Fictions

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.

Author: M. O'Connell
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/20/2013
Pages: 233
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230361706

About the Author

Mark O'Connell teaches contemporary British and Irish fiction in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he recently completed an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He has published essays on twentieth- and twenty-first century fiction in Studies in the Novel, Critique, Orbis Litterarum, Irish Studies Review and Irish University Review. He is a staff writer for The Millions.