Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present
About this ebook
The volume is divided into five sections, each of which examines one broadly defined aspect of memory. The introductory section focuses on memory and history, and is followed by sections on memory and autobiography, place, identity, and memory in the work of novelist John Banville. Within each section, the individual writers engage in a fruitful dialogue with each other and with the approaches of such theorists as Arendt, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Baudrillard.
About the author
Irene Gilsenan Nordin is Senior Lecturer in English at Dalarna University College, Sweden. She is director of DUCIS, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, and editor of NIS (Nordic Irish Studies). Her most recent books are Re-Mapping Exile (Aarhus University Press, 2005) and The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Irish Academic Press, 2006) and she is currently completing a monograph entitled The Element of the Spiritual in the Poetry of Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin for Mellen Press.
Lene Yding Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in English at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on contemporary literature and culture of the English-speaking world, and her publications include articles on cultural text studies, narrative theory, and Irish literature. Among her recent publications are “Atlanticized: Joseph O’Connor’s America” in Cultural Text Studies 2: Transatlantic (Aalborg University Press, 2006) and “Colliding Words: Banville’s Art Trilogy” in Literature and Visual Culture (University of Iceland Press, 2005).
