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John Banville
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Elke D'hoker
  • LAST MODIFIED: 24 July 2024
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0205

  • D’hoker, Elke. Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

    DOI: 10.1163/9789004489615

    An investigation of Banville’s novelistic concern with the paradox of representation, i.e., the necessity and impossibility of expressing world and self in language. Demonstrates the novels’ profound engagement with continental philosophy and Western literature and traces the shifting emphases of this engagement, from a concern with epistemology and aesthetics in the early works to a greater engagement with ethical and existential questions in the art trilogy and after.

  • Friberg-Harnesk, Hedda. Reading John Banville through Jean Baudrillard. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2018.

    Discusses the themes of (in)authenticity, masks, duplicity, and unstable identities in Banville’s later work, reading them through Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra. Individual chapters discuss the novels from The Un

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    Banville, John 1945–

    PERSONAL: Born December 8, 1945, in Wexford, Ireland; son of Martin and Agnes (Doran) Banville; married Janet Dunham (a textile artist), 1969 (marriage ended); married Patricia Quinn; children: (first marriage) Colm, Douglas; (second marriage) two daughters. Education: Attended St. Peter's College.

    ADDRESSES: Home—Dublin, Ireland. Agent—Sheil Land Associates, Ltd., 43 Doughty St., London WC1N 2LF, England.

    CAREER: Irish Press, Dublin, Ireland, copy editor, 1969–83; Irish Times, Dublin, subeditor, 1986–88, literary editor, 1988–99. Aer Lingus, Dublin, Ireland, clerk.

    AWARDS, HONORS: Irish Arts Council Macaulay Fellowship, 1973; Allied Irish Banks Prize from the Irish Academy of Letters, 1973, and American-Irish Foundation Literary Award, 1976, both for Birchwood; James Tait Black Memorial Prize, University of Edinburgh, 1976, for Doctor Copernicus; Guardian Fiction Prize and Allied Irish Bank Fiction Prize, both 1981, both for Kepler; American-Irish Foundation Award, 1981, for Birchwood; Guinness Peat Aviation Award and Booker Prize s

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    John Banville

    Irish writer, also writes as Benjamin Black (born 1945)

    William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.[2] Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.[3][1]

    Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017.[5] He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.[6]

    Banville was born and grew up in Wexford town in south-east Ireland. He published his fir

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