Book Description
This important new study is aimed at the primary question of a "new synthesis" proposed by John Banville, the contemporary Irish writer, who foresees the end of postmodernism and the beginning of a new "ism" or synthesis in art. "Truth is arbitrary, reality is multifarious, language is not a clear lens." The analysis of his nine novels is an open dialogue with other fields of knowledge, with the critics of his work and contemporary criticism following the writer's reflections upon the different systems of representation as metafiction, science and the perception of visual arts. The focus is on the interactive process between the observer and the observed in the construction of meanings. The belief that literature is a social practice and literary texts must be analyzed within their contexts permeates this work.
About the Author
Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra is an Irish Studies scholar and literary critic.
Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths: The Process of a New Aesthetic Synthesis in John Banville's Work FROM THE PUBLISHER
This study explores the "new synthesis" proposed by John Banville, the contemporary Irish writer who foresees the end of postmodernism and the beginning of a new "ism" or synthesis in art.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Comprising a translation of Izarra's doctoral thesis, submitted at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1995, this volume examines Irish novelist John Banville's nine novels published through 1995. Using the metaphor of the hologram as the basis of Banville's writing and using the same metaphor as the basis of her own reading of his work, she defines the "new synthesis" proposed by Banville, who foresees the end of postmodernism and a movement towards a new synthesis in art. Discussed are postmodern, postcolonial, and contemporary post- Newtonian scientific theories, as well as analysis of theories of discourse, art, psychology, and history. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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