John Banville : arguments of postmodernity

• Main Author: Wan, Jasmine Xiang Ling
• Other Authors: Daniel Keith Jernigan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52276
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

I begin my paper with the observation that one often finds John Banville’s works being read as ‘postmodern’ by scholars in the critical discourse about the author’s fiction. I will proceed to demonstrate that this concept of Banville’s writings being ‘postmodern’ is taken for granted by many academi...