{"product_id":"john-banville-9781684485482","title":"John Banville","description":"\u003ci\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/i\u003e offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays. Banville's work has been marked by an embedded discourse about the significance of art and by a concurrent self-consciousness of its own status as art. His novels perpetually reveal an overt fascination with the visual arts, in particular, and with the aesthetic principle of literature as art. This study asserts that, as a whole, Banville's work presents an elaborate and richly textured coded account of his relationship with art and with the self-referential fictional world that his novels conjure. It is from this critical context that \u003ci\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/i\u003e's central argument is derived: that his fiction can be viewed as an extended interrogation of the meaning and status of art and that it is itself representative of the type of art admired in the pages of the novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEIL MURPHY\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eAidan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Higgins: The Fragility of Form \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor (with Keith Hopper) of \u003ci\u003eThe Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien\u003c\/i\u003e and (with W. Michelle Wang and Cheryl Julia Lee) of the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Companion to Literature and Art\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51175200424210,"sku":"9781684485482","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8af8b4c-5d76-4571-aaaa-5081e1af9cde.jpg?v=1744288397","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/john-banville-9781684485482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}