Sounding the Margins: Literary examples from France and Ireland - Paperback

by Eamon Maher (Other), Sarah Nolan Balen (Editor), Eamon Maher (Editor)

Concentrating on the literary manifestations of marginality in Ireland and France, the essays in this book discuss various texts that demonstrate the extent to which marginality is a recurring trope.

Author Biography

Sarah Nolan Balen is President of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) and a lecturer in Literature at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dublin. She completed a doctoral thesis at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin which analysed interconnections between the works of several city poets including Charles Baudelaire, Fernando Pessoa, T.S. Eliot and Peter Sirr - and has published on these and other poets.

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin - Tallaght Campus and general editor of the Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Studies series with Peter Lang. His most recent book (with Eugene O'Brien) is Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2021) and he is currently working on a monograph on the Catholic Novel.