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Not applicable No embargo required Not applicable No embargo required No Embargo Required Davis, Alex Allen, Graham Kirwan, Mark Irish Research Council 2017-06-23T12:01:27Z 2017-06-23T12:01:27Z 2016 2016 This study focuses on the cinematic aspects of John Banville’s work, aiming to answer how the overt cinematic interest in the cinema in his later work is to be understood in the context of his writing career as a whole. His writing plays on the difficulties inherent in the relationship between appearances and reality, raising questions about how words and images, accurately or otherwise, represent the world. The thesis here is that the cinema has become a significant feature and powerful symbolic image of these preoccupations in the later period of Banville’s career, resonating with his earlier work while bringing a new frame through which to look at his novels and wider career. This cinematic interest continues the Banvillian tradition of appropriating other art forms in the construction of his novels and also is a deeply resonant form considering the predominant themes of surface, appearance and inability to penetrate reality in his work. Following this thread involves the consideration of many of Banville’s novels, naturally, but also brings his scriptwriting credits for film into critical discussion of his writing, as well as the cinematically inflected work of his Benjamin Black writing persona. As such a further aim of the research is to expand the horizons of study around Banville’s writing by looking at the more esoteric and marginal in his oeuvre and how they relate to his prominent, dominant, well-known works. Irish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme 2012/13) Not peer reviewed Accepted Version application/pdf Kirwan, M. 2016. Beneath the penumbral glow: John Banville and the cinema. PhD Thesis, University College Cork. 266 https://hdl.handle.net/10468/4186 en University College Cork © 2016, Mark Kirwan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ John Banville Scopophilia Cinema Benjamin Black Chinatown Adaptation Fiction Crime fiction Psychoanalytic criticism Philosophical novel Historical fiction false Beneath the penumbral glow: John Banville and the cinema Doctoral thesis Doctoral PhD (Arts) g.allen@ucc.ieinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess