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Banville’s novels offer a difficulty to the reader, since he uses many images, metaphors, puns, indirect narration as, in other words, dramatisation with a shift in time, which tests the reader’s awareness and holds his attention all through, i.e. He writes for the high-brow reader. The stream of consciousness also added to the complex style. The voices of his narrators, or the mouthpieces, that he uses, are all modern in their sense of rejection and anger at the absurdity and misery of the world.
In this thesis, an attempt will be made to highlight on six of Banville’s novels in terms of themes, characterisation and technique. The thesis will be divided into three chapters and a conclusion.
It deals with Ireland, giving some details about the Irish history, and it is going to cast light on the social situations that prevailed in Ireland. Moreover, there will be a stress on the literary movement since it started, with no re
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craftsmen”2. The term “Big House” has gone out of general usage and has been replaced by Country
House, an appellation with no political nuances. Joseph Lee: The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, 1984, p. Besides, he gave great concern to the structure of his works. Modernism in English fiction begins with his works. 7
He used a blend of British and Irish words that resulted in a beautiful poetic mode of expression where “meaning is shaped and directed by patterns immanent in the words themselves”8
Banville has often been considered a difficult novelist, maybe this is due to his complex style that teems with images, metaphors, puns and indirect narration.
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