1992-94: Language Assistant, University of Paris-Nanterre; 1994-97: Lecturer in French, University of Exeter; 1997-: Lecturer in French, University College Dublin

Emer O'Beirne ... argues (in my view rightly) that reading a text and giving it meaning will always remain a dialogic activity in which reader and writer are bound together and cannot operate independently.

• Introduction ; 1. Irony, Dialogue, and the Novel ; 2. The Writing Self: Irony and Authority ; 3. The Self and Language: Authenticity and Convention ; 4. Reading and Otherness ; 5. Reading in Theory and Practice ; Conclusion: Ici - From Language to Silence and Back ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

1992-94: Language Assistant, University of Paris-Nanterre; 1994-97: Lecturer in French, University of Exeter; 1997-: Lecturer in French, University College Dublin

Emer O'Beirne ... argues (in my view rightly) that reading a text and giving it meaning will always remain a dialogic activity in which reader and writer are bound together and cannot operate independently.

• Introduction ; 1. Irony, Dialogue, and the Novel ; 2. The Writing Self: Irony and Authority ; 3. The Self and Language: Authenticity and Convention ; 4. Reading and Otherness ; 5. Reading in Theory and Practice ; Conclusion: Ici - From Language to Silence and Back ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

1992-94: Language Assistant, University of Paris-Nanterre; 1994-97: Lecturer in French, University of Exeter; 1997-: Lecturer in French, University College Dublin

Emer O'Beirne ... argues (in my view rightly) that reading a text and giving it meaning will always remain a dialogic activity in which reader and writer are bound together and cannot operate independently.

• Introduction ; 1. Irony, Dialogue, and the Novel ; 2. The Writing Self: Irony and Authority ; 3. The Self and Language: Authenticity and Convention ; 4. Reading and Otherness ; 5. Reading in Theory and Practice ; Conclusion: Ici - From Language to Silence and Back ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index