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Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville offers detailed and original readings of the work of the Irish author John Banville, one of the foremost figures in contemporary European literature. It investigates one of the fundamental concerns of Banville's novels: mediating the gap between subject and object or self and world in representation. By drawing on the rich history of the problem of representation in literature, philosophy and literary theory, this study provides a thorough insight into the rich philosophical and intertextual dimension of Banville's fiction. In close textual analyses of Banville's most important novels, it maps out a thematic development that moves from an interest in the epistemological and aesthetic representation of the world in scientific theories, over a concern with the ethical dimension of representations, to an exploration of self-representation and identity. What remains constant throughout these different perspectives is the disruption of representations by brief but haunting glimpses of otherness. In tracing these different visions of alterity in Banville's solipsistic literary world, this study offers a better understanding of his insistent and thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human.

Banville, John --- Other (Philosophy) --- Philosophy in literature --- Self-presentation in literature

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Ever since the publication of her first collection, Tales from Bective Bridge, in 1942, Mary Lavin has been praised for admirably capturing, in intense and lucid stories, the social and psychological reality of mid-20th-century Ireland. Yet, Lavin's sharp insight into the quiet tragedies and joys of human life easily transcends its immediate context, and her work continues to appeal to contemporary readers, both in Ireland and abroad. To celebrate the recent centenary of Mary Lavin's birth, this collection honors one of the leading figures of the Irish short story tradition. Leading critics.

Authors, Irish --- Women and literature --- History --- Lavin, Mary, --- Dublin (Ireland) --- Bally-Ath-Cliath (Ireland) --- Dubh-linn (Ireland) --- Baile Átha Cliath (Ireland) --- Dublin (Dublin) --- Intellectual life

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This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form. .

Fiction --- English literature --- Literature --- fantasy --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- Engelse literatuur --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Great Britain --- Ireland

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This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.

Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- First person narrative --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction. --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Academic collection --- 82-31 "19" --- 82-3 --- Roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- 82-31 "19" Roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Narrative, First person --- Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Point of view (Literature) --- Persona (Literature) --- Technique --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- First person narrative - History and criticism --- First-Person Novel. --- Narrative Theory. --- Unreliable Narrator. --- Roman --- Narrattion à la première personne --- Vérité et mensonge --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature