The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by John Banville. by Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997

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History, memory and nostalgia in literature and culture / edited by Regina Rudaitytė.

Table of Contents: “…; I Mourn Thee Now; Liars, Similes and Story-tellers in The Blue-Guitar (2015) by John Banville; Devaluating Testimony; Postmemory and Copresence in Lisa Appignanesi and Emilia Degenius; Whose Memory? …”
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Seaing through the past : postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction / Joanna Rostek. by Rostek, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Small Men at Big History: Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996) and lan McEwan's On Chesil Beath (2007)3.4 Seaing through Biographies -- 4 Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma -- 4.1 In Search of a Life Line: Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002) -- 4.2 Plotting a Course in the Sea of Memory: John Banville's The Sea (2005) -- 4.3 Seaing through Trauma -- 5 Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power -- 5.1 Historiographic Darwinism and Ark-ology: Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters (1989)…”
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Iris Murdoch connected : critical essays on her fiction and philosophy / edited by Mark Luprecht.

Table of Contents: “…"Despite herself": the resisted influence of Virginia Woolf on Iris Murdoch's fiction / Frances White -- The case of Murdoch and Canetti / Elaine Morley -- The French connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau / Miles Leeson -- "Near the gods": Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger / Anne Rowe -- "The now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character": reanimating personhood from Under the net to John Banville / David James -- "Robbed of thy youth by me": the myth of Hyacinth and Apollo in The bell and the sea, the sea / Pamela Osborn -- Rebarbative wire? …”
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Shades of Laura : Vladimir Nabokov's last novel The original of Laura / edited by Yuri Leving.

Table of Contents: “…/ Michael Rodgers -- Looking for Flora : deviance and disclosure in Nabokov's The original of Laura / Barbara Wyllie -- Reading the posthumous postmodern : Laura's productive fragments / Paul Ardoin -- The problem with Nabokov / Martin Amis -- Trump cards / John Banville -- In the cards, a last hand / Alexander Theroux -- A generous gift to readers / Heller McAlpin -- The Nabokov mess / Nathaniel Rich -- Vladimir Nabokov, reduced to notes / Michael Dirda -- An earnest proposal to Dmitri Nabokov / Amelia Glaser -- Genius erased / Michael Antman -- A curiosity for Nabokov's fans / James Marcus -- Deaths of the authors / Thomas Karshan -- The critics' Laura / Marijeta Bozovic -- Translating Laura / Gennady Barabtarlo, Maurice Couturier, Anna Raffetto, Rien Verhoef, and Tadashi Wakashima -- The last word, or not? …”
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Turgenev and Russian culture : essays to honour Richard Peace / edited by Joe Andrew, Derek Offord and Robert Reid.

Table of Contents: “…; Turgenev and the Sphinx; A 'Buttoned-up' Hero of His Time: Turgenev's Use of the Language of Vestimentary Markers in Rudin; Mystical Union in the Philosophy of Vladimir Solovev; First Loves and Last Rites: from Ivan Turgenev to John Banville.…”
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Textual ethos studies, or Locating ethics / edited by Anna Fahraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson.

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: Textual Ethos Studies-or Locating Ethics; The Novel, the Social and the Event: An International Ethical Encounter; Execrable Speech: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Bagatelles pour un Massacre; The Grotesque on Fleshing Out the Subject of Ethics; Playing Ball With God: Breaking the Law in Breaking the Waves; Post-textual Ethics: Foucault's Rhetorical Will; Shakespeare's Othello: Jealousy and Hermeneutics; The Ethics of Modality in Pauline Smith's "The Sisters"; Telling Stories: Alterity and Ethics in John Banville's The Untouchable and Shroud.…”
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Structures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture / edited by Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup.

Table of Contents: “…The Literary Representation of Emotion, Affect, and Feeling in Self-Reflexive Autobiographies -- "The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heart": The Narrative (Re)Construction of Emotions in John Banville's The Sea -- Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or What Does It Mean to be Moved? …”
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Intrigue : espionage and culture / Allan Hepburn. by Hepburn, Allan

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The Wiley Blackwell companion to contemporary British and Irish literature / edited by Richard Bradford, Madelena Gonzalez, Stephen Butler, James Ward, Kevin De Ornellas.

Table of Contents: “…Notes -- Chapter 13a Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community -- Introduction -- The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death -- A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 I Am, Therefore I Think: Being and Thinking Inside the World of John Banville's Fiction -- Introduction -- Long Lankin: 'Where's the Little Heir of This House?' …”
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Anatomy of a Short Story : Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, Signs and Symbols. by Leving, Yuri

Table of Contents: “…Mignon; An Afterword; John Banville; Endnotes; Alternative tables of contents; Credits; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to contemporary British and Irish literature / edited by Richard Bradford, Madelena Gonzalez, Stephen Butler, James Ward, Kevin De Ornellas.

Table of Contents: “…Notes -- Chapter 13a Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community -- Introduction -- The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death -- A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 I Am, Therefore I Think: Being and Thinking Inside the World of John Banville's Fiction -- Introduction -- Long Lankin: 'Where's the Little Heir of This House?' …”
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Conversations with James Salter / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais.

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