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Brendan McNamee

BRENDAN MCNAMEE is the author of books and articles on John Banville, Michel Houellebecq, Gerald Murnane, Robert Musil, Sean O’Casey, Flannery O’Connor, W B Yeats and others

Posted on October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 by Brendan McNamee

“A tune beyond us, yet ourselves”: the mystic heart of sport

Rembrandt, "The Golf Player", 1654 BRENDAN MCNAMEE finds uplift in athleticism In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Arthur Dent makes the startling discovery that white mice, rather than being the objects of experiments carried out by humans, were in fact carrying out an experiment on humans. I wonder if a similar principle might be…

Posted on December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 by Brendan McNamee

The dark back of time – deconstruction in literature and religion

The Good and Evil Angels, by William Blake BRENDAN MCNAMEE says that deconstruction is as old as its opposite Eternity is in love with the productions of time William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Deconstruction is a modern cliché, but it is something much older and more substantive than a passing academic fad.…

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