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Michael G Cronin

Michael G Cronin lectures in the Department of English at Maynooth University. He writes on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Irish literature and culture, most recently in Revolutionary Bodies (2024) and Sexual/Liberation (2022).

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Art for the Market's Sake: John Banville's False Autonomy

Art for the Market's Sake: John Banville's False Autonomy

"It's nice to see a work of art win", John Banville said on winning the Booker Prize. Michael G Cronin traces a line from that remark to the neoliberal creative economy, and from there to Banville's defence of Israel's brutality against Palestine.

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