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The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh (review)

The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh (review) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES postmillennial cultural production in Britain as articulating imaginatively and often provocatively the hopes and fears of an uncertain multiethnic society. Philip Mosley Pennsylvania State University The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh. By Michael O'Sullivan. London: Continuum, 2008. 189 pp. Cloth $120.00. O'Sullivan in effect combines two valuable studies. He opens with a densely woven, lucid chapter touring French theorizing on "incarnation" in response to phenomenology plus religious tradition, moves to Joyce and Proust, dedicating a chapter to each, and then in a final chapter juxtaposes the novelists mainly in regard to how they develop the principle of "impotence." These four chapters thus perform a double mirroring. Heady chapter 1 is quite able to stand on its own as a study in intellectual history but is intended as a foil for the two great writers, and then Joyce and Proust are mutually reflected in their own right through their fictions. O'Sullivan is clearly a master of the philosophic subject matter that his more general introduction and his Gallocentric first chapter compress into fifty-six pages. It is no mean feat to line up and referee the rolling discourse, with its cross-commentaries, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Studies Penn State University Press

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES postmillennial cultural production in Britain as articulating imaginatively and often provocatively the hopes and fears of an uncertain multiethnic society. Philip Mosley Pennsylvania State University The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh. By Michael O'Sullivan. London: Continuum, 2008. 189 pp. Cloth $120.00. O'Sullivan in effect combines two valuable studies. He opens with a densely woven, lucid chapter touring French theorizing on "incarnation" in response to phenomenology plus religious tradition, moves to Joyce and Proust, dedicating a chapter to each, and then in a final chapter juxtaposes the novelists mainly in regard to how they develop the principle of "impotence." These four chapters thus perform a double mirroring. Heady chapter 1 is quite able to stand on its own as a study in intellectual history but is intended as a foil for the two great writers, and then Joyce and Proust are mutually reflected in their own right through their fictions. O'Sullivan is clearly a master of the philosophic subject matter that his more general introduction and his Gallocentric first chapter compress into fifty-six pages. It is no mean feat to line up and referee the rolling discourse, with its cross-commentaries,

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Published: May 20, 2011

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