"Powers of misrecognition": masculinity and the politics of the aesthetic in the fiction of John Banville

This thesis analyses the links between masculinity and representations of power in the fiction of John Banville and argues that his use of the category of the aesthetic,especially the sublime, strategically presents the masculine subject as the site of a loss of power, often figured as selffragmenta...

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Main Author: Thomson, Christopher James
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Culture, Literature and Society 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4293