"At the boundary of perceived reality and pure form" : establishing an authentic authorial voice in John Banville's 'The Sea'

• Main Author: Ong, Selina Kai Li
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69579
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis seeks to demonstrate how John Banville’s use of form in The Sea helps fulfil the conditions set up in the novels preceding The Sea to navigate the irreconcilable gap between writing and the reality it attempts to represent. Faced with two systems – writing and objective reality – that ex...