Ghosts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Banville
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: An unnatned island
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Professor Silas Kreutznaer, Licht, Felix, Flora, Sophie, Croke, Vaublin
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Prisoners, Ghosts or apparitions, Islands, Imagination, Painting or painters, Fame, Metaphysics, Harlequin or Commedia dell’arte
- Locales: Islands
Is it that Anthony Hopkins has become so powerful and pervasive an icon of contemporary culture that it is no longer possible to see the world that stretches from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) through Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993) to Shadowlands (1993) except through his, which is to say his characters’, eyes? Or is it, rather, that the repression for which Hopkins is surely cinema’s modern master has become so pronounced an element of postmodern culture, the flip side as it were of late capitalism and carnival excess, the...
[The entire page is 2134 words long]
Navigate
- Ghosts (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
- Ghosts (Magill Book Reviews)
- Ghosts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Ghosts (Magill Book Reviews)
- Ghosts (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
- Ghosts (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
See Also:
See Also:
- - Read the Ghosts text online.
- - Ghosts summary and study guide in the eNotes.
- Add Ghosts to your favorites