Reading John Banville through Jean Baudrillard /
This book aims to trace manifestations of Baudrillardean thinking in the contemporary fiction (seven novels and two plays) by John Banville, written in the period 1997 to 2015. Questions addressed concern the kinds of elements, attributable to what Jean Baudrillard terms the 'symbolic' ord...
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cambria contemporary literature, film, and theory series.
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Table of Contents:
- Masks, memory, simulation : the untouchable and the sea
- The "problem of the actor" : eclipse, shroud, and ancient light
- The sorcererʹs assistant : Cass Cleaveʹs transfigured selves in Eclipse and shroud
- Cancellation by the double : the Amphitryon myth and threats to the self in Godʹs gift
- High stakes in the symbolic order : love in the wars
- An "evaporation ... into the inhuman" : the infinities
- "Plausible in every detail" : the simulated world of The infinities
- "Consigned to an infinite replay" : the blue guitar
- Coda : "there is no end, then; no conclusion."