Formal authority in the fiction of Banville, Calvino and Nabokov.

• Main Author: Tang, Tansey.
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35271
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay examines each of the novels for their individual ideas of worldmaking, using aspects of Goodman’s study to initiate discussion of form and how it exemplifies ways of perceiving and constructing worlds. In Invisible Cities, form and content unify in the image of the city, as Marco Polo rai...