The “Woman” as a Frame for the Self: Femininity, Ekphrasis, and Aesthetic Selfhood in John Banville’s Eclipse, Shroud, and Ancient Light

Banville’s latest trilogy Eclipse, Shroud, and Ancient Light forms an interconnected web of narratives that aptly dramatizes Banville’s fictional investigation of subjectivity and otherness. The “other” in these narratives is consistently a female other on whom the narrators bestow a multitude of ro...

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Main Author: Mehdi Ghassemi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses 2018-10-01
Series:Estudios Irlandeses
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Online Access:https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DEF.-GHASSEMI.pdf