John Banville and His Precursors

John Banville and the idea of the precursor : some meditations / Derek Hand -- Unknown unity : Ireland and Europe in Beckett and Banville / Peter Boxall -- "The vain thing menaced by the touch of the real" : John Banville as a precursor to Henry James / Darren Borg -- From Isabel Archer to Mrs Osmond : John Banville reinterprets Henry James / Elke D'hoker -- Afterlives of a supreme fiction : John Banville's dialogue with Wallace Stevens / Pietra Palazzolo -- Effacing the subject : Banville, Kleist and a world without people / Rebecca Downes -- The limits of simile : Rilke, Stevens, and Banville's scepticism / Michael Springer -- John Banville and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal : language, mundane revelation, and profane sacrality / Joakim Wrethed -- "A fool's errand" : Blanchot, mourning, and the sea / Karen McCarthy -- Reading Banville with Lacan : hysteric aesthetics in the Book of evidence / Mehdi Ghassemi -- Existential precursors and contemporaries in Banville's Alex Cleave trilogy / Stephen Butler -- "An earthly glow" : Heidegger and the uncanny in Eclipse and the sea / Michael Springer -- John Banville's ekphrastic experiments / Neil Murphy Index.