The supreme fictions of John Banville

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The supreme fictions of John Banville

Joseph McMinn

Manchester University Press, 1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. 179-183

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780719053979

内容説明

This work offers a critical commentary on the range of John Banville's fiction, including the plays, and views that fiction in the contexts of contemporary critical theory, particularly those of postmodernism and feminism. It argues that Banville's work is deeply influenced by romantic and modernist mythologies of the creative imagination, especially those expressed by Coleridge and Wallace Stevens. Banville's interest in systems of knowledge and forms of representation is a major issue in the study, and McMinn investigates his use of paintings as metaphors. The introduction surveys Banville's relation to Irish, European and American writing, and is followed by a close textual analysis of each of Banville's texts, from "Long Lankin" to "The Untouchable". The bibliography reflects the international character and appeal of Banville's achievement.

目次

  • "Long Lankin"
  • "Nightspawn"
  • "Birchwood"
  • "Doctor Copernicus"
  • "Kepler"
  • "The Newton Letter"
  • "Mefisto"
  • "The Book of Evidence"
  • "Ghosts"
  • "Athena"
  • " The Untouchable". Appendix: two dramatic pieces by Banville.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780719056987

内容説明

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book, newly available in paperback, brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process. The book starts with a broad conceptual overview of ways that the sociological and economics literatures address issues of innovation, demand and consumption. It goes on to offer different approaches to the economics of demand and innovation through an evolutionary framework, before reviewing how consumption fits into evolutionary models of economic development. Food consumption is then looked at as an example of innovation by demand, including an examination of the dynamic nature of socially-constituted consumption routines. The book includes a number of illuminating case studies, including an analysis of how black Americans use consumption to express collective identity, and a number of demand-innovation relationships within matrices or chains of producers and users or other actors, including service industries such as security, and the environmental performance of companies. The involvement of consumers in innovation is looked at, including an analysis of how consumer needs may be incorporated in the design of high-tech products. The final chapter argues for the need to build an economic sociology of demand that goes from micro-individual through to macro-structural features. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, innovation and infrastructure -- .

目次

  • "Long Lankin"
  • "Nightspawn"
  • "Birchwood"
  • "Doctor Copernicus"
  • "Kepler"
  • "The Newton Letter"
  • "Mefisto"
  • "The Book of Evidence"
  • "Ghosts"
  • "Athena"
  • " The Untouchable". Appendix: two dramatic pieces by Banville.

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