Autor: Irene Gilsenan Nordin

Hedda Friberg is Senior Lecturer in English at Mid Sweden University, Härnösand, Sweden. Among her recent publications are „”In the Murky Sea of Memory”: Memory”s Miscues in John Banville”s The Sea” in An Sionnach 1.2. (2005) and an article on Banville”s Eclipse and Shroud in the Irish University Review special issue on Banville (June 2006). A monograph tentatively entitled „The Fleetingly Real in John Banville”s Recent Work” is in the making.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).